Finance Committee lacks key information on trade talks, staffer says

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has taken the unusual step of classifying the list of partners with which it’s engaged in trade talks and has refused repeated requests to share negotiating texts, a Senate Finance Committee staffer tells Inside U.S. Trade after the top Democrat on the panel charged that the agency’s consultations had become less frequent and less substantive. Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-OR), in recently released questions for the record for President...