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October 7, 2025

Tai to talk sustainability, forced labor, digital trade in Asia

By Hannah Monicken  / November 12, 2021 at 3:49 PM
During an upcoming trip to Asia, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will try to rally the administration’s Indo-Pacific allies on issues like environmental sustainability, combatting forced labor, building resilient supply chains and fostering digital trade, she said on Friday, matching her goals for the visit with the core of the agency’s worker-centered trade policy. USTR announced last month that Tai would travel to Tokyo, Seoul and New Delhi, leaving Washington on Nov. 15. The trip to India will coincide with...

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