House members knock administration for lack of a digital trade strategy

Joint Economic Committee members last week decried the Trump administration's digital commerce strategy, with some questioning whether rekindling the Trade in Services Agreement could bolster U.S. leadership on the issue. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), during a June 27 hearing titled "The Need for U.S. Leadership on Digital Trade," probed industry representatives on how the U.S. could reassert its role in the digital sphere. He argued that the Trump administration's digital trade policies had been largely nonexistent. "So far, the president's...