White House urges renewed focus on IUU fishing, forced labor

The Biden administration will continue its push for more robust rules and enforcement related to illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing and forced labor on fishing vessels, the White House said on Monday, directing the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to continue to push for fisheries subsidies disciplines that did not make it into the pared-down deal agreed at the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference earlier this month. The new National Security Memorandum also directs various agencies, including USTR, to...