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Senate trade panel leaders to Tai: Rethink ‘misguided’ TPP withdrawal

May 6, 2021 at 5:30 AM
The U.S. should re-examine the Trump administration’s “misguided” and “short-sighted” decision in 2017 to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the leaders of the Senate Finance trade subcommittee told U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai this week. In a letter to Tai on Thursday, subcommittee chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) and ranking member John Cornyn (R-TX), along with House Ways & Means trade subcommittee member Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), asked Tai to re-engage with allies in the Asia-Pacific region to develop multilateral, free-trade partnerships...

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