Beeman: U.S. pursuing increasingly ‘retrograde’ trade policies

Politics is pushing the U.S. toward increasingly “retrograde” trade policies, former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Michael Beeman tells Inside U.S. Trade , contending that former President Trump’s blanket tariff proposal would move the U.S. even further outside the lines on trade -- to an entirely new “coloring book.” Beeman served as AUSTR for Japan, Korea and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation from 2017 until 2023, when he left the agency to become a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center...