Chamber wants answers on USTR’s digital trade shift, demands records

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is calling on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to release a slew of records on its communications with key progressive advocates and U.S. antitrust regulators, saying it wants to know “who may have been driving” the agency’s recent shift on digital trade issues. USTR in late October announced it was withdrawing U.S. support for e-commerce proposals at the World Trade Organization on data flows, data localization and source code, citing a need to...