Rewind: In search of more secure supply chains

The Biden administration’s 100-day review of supply-chain shortcomings produced a 250-page report highlighting “structural weaknesses in both domestic and international supply chains” and the ways in which they “threaten America’s economic and national security.” The report yielded a to-do list that, assuming follow-through, will exert a major influence on trade policy. It recommends, as part of its expansive list, the creation of a “ strike force ” led by the U.S. Trade Representative to deal with trade malefaction deemed to...