Wyden says he went to top White House officials with digital trade concerns

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) met with top White House officials last month to express frustration with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s decision to withdraw U.S. support for key digital trade measures at the World Trade Organization, he told Inside U.S. Trade this week. In late October, USTR announced that the U.S. would suspend its longstanding support for trade rules to preserve cross-border data flows and prevent governments from requiring data localization and source code...