Trade advisers get special access to agreements and can comment on them before they are made public. More than 4 out of 5 advisers represent corporations.
Katherine Tai
Posted inEconomic Policy
Industrial Policy: Now Comes the Hard Part
Enacting large-scale bipartisan legislation was a minor miracle. It will take an even bigger miracle to spend all that money effectively.
Posted inCoronavirus
WTO Fails to Promote COVID Vaccines
Today on TAP: And the U.S., despite Biden’s commitment to a waiver of drug company patent rights, sides with Pharma.
Posted inEconomic Policy
After Hyper-Globalization
What should the next trading system be? Can we restore the capacity of the U.S. to produce—and of all nations to regulate capitalism?
Posted inTAP
Weakening China Tariffs Will Not Relieve Inflation
Today on TAP: Some in the administration are again pushing for tariff cuts. Their approach is bad economics and worse politics.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s 180-Degree Shift on Trade Policy
Thanks to the Rapid Response mechanism in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, trade is now being used as leverage to protect workers’ rights.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Man Bites Dog: Government Helps American Workers in Trade Dispute
For the first time ever, the U.S. trade representative has initiated a trade complaint against a foreign factory (which makes GM cars and pickups).
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Unforced Error: Naming Sarah Bianchi to a Top China Job
Today on TAP: A baffling choice for USTR
Posted inEconomic Policy
Stopping the Race to the Bottom in Trade Policy
Agribusiness giant Bayer/Monsanto claims that Mexico’s proposed restrictions on the active ingredient in its Roundup herbicide violate the country’s trade agreement with the U.S. Will the Biden administration agree?
Posted inCabinet Watch
Will the New U.S. Trade Rep Be Hobbled by Lobbyists?
Despite the appointment of a progressive, Katherine Tai, to the top slot, Big Tech hopes to insert allies as her deputies.