Former USTR general counsel: RRM needs adaptations for use in other agreements

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has often touted the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s rapid response mechanism -- designed to strengthen labor rights for Mexican workers -- as one of the Biden administration’s top trade policy accomplishments and suggested something like it could be part of other deals, but replicating the mechanism will require adjustments, says former USTR General Counsel Greta Peisch. “Our USMCA trade zone and those relationships are so unique that you really have to think about, you know,...