Oregon ranked 18th in the country for total goods exports last year, and political leaders and business groups frequently note that one in five jobs here is linked to trade. | Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesPORTLAND, Ore. — Democrats’ conflicting impulses over the future of U.S. trade policy are playing out here in the nation’s Pacific Northwest.
“All across Oregon, we’re sending the message: These ports and airports are open for more business,” Biden told the crowd at Portland International Airport. China has been Oregon’s top export market for years — and the amount of goods sold there has more than doubled to $10.6 billion since 2018, data show. But Southeast Asia has become increasingly important to its economy, with Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore already among the 10 largest export markets.
Under former President Donald Trump, the U.S. “lost the strategic thinking about what trade is for and what our trade policy is about,” Robinhold said. Expanding global trade should have support across the political spectrum, he added, but the benefits to American workers and consumers get lost in translation. Politicians need to “talk about it in normal terms that people understand.”
Trainor argued the Biden administration should not try to resurrect the traditional trade deals that presidents before Trump — Democrat and Republican — pursued. He praised Biden’s U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, for promoting a “worker-centered” trade policy, saying she doesn’t presume the whole economy benefits from lowering tariffs and opening foreign markets.
“We are not starting these conversations with tariff liberalization in large part because our traditional trade models and traditional [free trade agreements] have led us to a place where we are facing considerable backlash that we are listening to from our own people about concerns regarding the offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs,” Tai told the Senate Finance CommitteeIt’s an experiment that not all Democrats are convinced will work.
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