Tai testimony: Top priority is economic recovery, followed by USMCA, China enforcement

Katherine Tai, President Biden’s pick for U.S. Trade Representative, will outline the administration’s short- and long-term priorities to the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, focusing first on how trade can aid in pandemic recovery efforts, according to an opening statement for her confirmation hearing. USTR’s first priority, she says, “will be to help American communities emerge from the pandemic and economic crisis.” “USTR has an important role to play in that effort,” Tai says in her prepared remarks , obtained...