Wyden, Crapo Lead Senators in Urging Biden to Reverse USTR Decision on Digital Trade
President Joe Biden should reverse U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s decision to abandon digital trade provisions at the World Trade Organization, a bipartisan group of 32 senators wrote in a letter to the president Thursday (see 2311160079). Senate Finance Committee…
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Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and ranking member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, led the effort with 30 other senators. This follows a similar request from a bipartisan group of House members. “Retreating from our longstanding principles without offering a viable alternative does not help U.S. workers, it does not help U.S. consumers, it does not help U.S. businesses, and it does not help U.S. allies; it only helps our adversaries,” they wrote. The White House and USTR didn’t comment.