GOP senators to Tai, Vilsack: IPEF must include market-access commitments

Republican members of the Senate Finance and Agriculture Committees are urging U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to make market-access commitments part of the administration’s much-anticipated Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. “Advancing U.S. economic interests -- particularly in the Indo-Pacific region -- requires meaningful and enforceable market access commitments,” the group of two dozen Republican senators wrote in a May 9 letter to Tai and Vilsack. Senate Finance and Senate Agriculture committee member Sen. John Thune (R-SD), Senate...