Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put added strain on the U.S.–China trade relationship, which Katherine Tai says cannot be ignored: 'We cannot take our eye off the ball.'
was sworn in amid a global pandemic that mangled global supply chains. She inherited the Trump administration’s trade agenda that was largely defined by draconian tariffs, a trade war with China, and atrophied relationships with U.S. allies. A year into her role as the United States trade representative, there’s a war in Europe thatand demands a new American diplomacy. Compounded, every crisis has exposed the existing and widening fissures in U.S. trade policy.
Administration officials and individuals who have previously worked with Tai on Capitol Hill describe her approach as straightforward and policy-focused. The Biden administration, and Tai by extension, has branded the U.S. approach to trade policy as “worker-centric”; trade policy has become detached from people, she says.
“We’re in a period of time with accelerating inflation. And the White House is painfully aware of how politically potent that issue is, and they’re behind the curve on solving it,” this person said. “The quickest way that the White House could solve for a portion of the inflationary pressure would be to remove the [Chinese] tariffs.”
“There are very many things about the previous administration that I think need to be changed, but I don’t think that's the right marker,” Wong tells me. “I think the question is whether the trade policy of the overly globalized, corporate-focused, volume-of-trade-only approach of the neoliberal trade regime was just not working either politically or substantively.”By Adam Schultz/White House Photo Office.
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