Tai gives USTR a new direction: Tackling climate change, inequality

In her first speech since taking over as U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai on Thursday charted a new course for the agency that envisions trade policy at the center of the Biden administration's push to tackle large, existential problems – climate change, racial justice and inequality. At the heart of the new-look USTR: A focus on environmental protection, both through unilateral enforcement of trade agreements and new multilateral trade rules. In her remarks to the Center for American Progress ,...