Inside Trade

October 4, 2024

Tai raises industrial policy, phase-one deal concerns in ‘candid’ call with Liu

By Margaret Spiegelman  / October 8, 2021 at 9:46 PM
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Friday evening spoke with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He for the first time since laying out the administration’s new strategy for U.S.-China economic relations, raising concerns over China’s industrial policy and implementation of the U.S.-China phase-one deal, USTR said. Earlier this week Tai announced plans to speak with her Chinese counterpart “in the coming days.” On Monday she delivered a much-anticipated speech expressing concern that China in recent years has “doubled down on its...

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