Lighthizer 'troubled' by two USTR officials' solicitation of consulting work on USMCA auto rules

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Wednesday expressed disappointment that two USTR employees had pursued business for a consulting firm they planned to set up while still working for the agency. Asked during a Senate Finance Committee hearing about a recent report on the two, both of whom were key to the development of the complex and controversial auto rules of origin in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Lighthizer said he was “troubled.” “The situation is this,” he told Sen. Bob Menendez...