Centrist Democrats push for new trade deals, better tariff-exclusion process

The Biden administration and Congress should pursue free trade agreements with the United Kingdom, Kenya and Taiwan and establish a more transparent exclusion process for Section 301 tariffs to lower consumer costs, the New Democrat Coalition said in a policy plan released on Tuesday. The coalition’s “ Economic Opportunity Agenda ” cites recent falling inflation as evidence of White House and congressional Democrats’ success at “lowering costs, fighting inflation, and growing the middle class.” But the pro-free trade group of...