Tai says she’s open to explore opportunities to update CAFTA-DR

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is open to exploring potential upgrades to the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement as the administration engages in its broader, developing economic initiative with countries in the Western Hemisphere, she told lawmakers last week. During a House Ways & Means Committee hearing on the administration’s 2023 trade policy agenda on Friday, Reps. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and Dan Kildee (D-MI) raised concerns to Tai about labor standards and enforcement under CAFTA-DR and certain other trade...