Rewind: Pumping up the volume

Is the Biden administration shifting trade policy gears? Picking up the pace after eight months of introspection and embracing a more muscle-flexing motif? That could be one conclusion from the spate of trade activity, from policy pronouncements to engagement with like-minded partners, that has dominated trade news over the past two weeks. The administration’s lead trade practitioner, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, stepping up her visible and verbal presence, unwrapped the outlines of the promised China policy; was part of...