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Katherine Tai on Incompatible Economic Systems

Last week during a Senate subcommittee hearing, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai responded to a question from Senator Braun with the following discussion of trade between market-oriented and non-market-oriented economies: But that's not the sum total of the challenge that we have, and I think that in

Katherine Tai on Fixing WTO Dispute Settlement

At the WITA event I mentioned previously, former USTR official Wendy Cutler spoke with U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai about WTO dispute settlement reform. Here was their exchange: Cutler: You've mentioned, and I've heard others talk about, ... we should think post MC12, and particularly about

Katherine Tai on IPEF Enforceability

At a WITA event yesterday, former USTR official Wendy Cutler had a conversation with U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai about various trade issues. One thing they touched upon was the enforceability of the IPEF. Here was their exchange: Cutler: How about enforcement and the IPEF? It's not

Katherine Tai on Protectionism, Environmental Goals, Peace, and U.S. Trade Policy

Speaking at an event hosted by the Technical University of Munich last week, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked a question about trade and the environment that prompted a broad response which touched on a number of important trade issues. Here was the exchange: Question: This has to

Katherine Tai on the Critics

This is from a Katherine Tai interview with Bloomberg TV anchor Haslinda Amin: Amin: You've been criticized for your trade policy, some say that it lacks ambition, some say you've not done enough to bring cost down for American companies. What do you make of those

Katherine Tai on Beating Regulatory Systems Into Submission

During a press conference at the conclusion of the Dialogue on the Future of Atlantic Trade today, U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai said this: Let us talk through and ask ourselves new sets of questions, not how do I beat your regulatory system into submission, or ... fend off your

Katherine Tai on WTO Dispute Settlement Reform

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai spoke today at an event hosted by The Institute of International and European Affairs. Here is something she said on WTO dispute settlement reform: On dispute settlement, ... I think that we need to come back to first principles ... . I know there's a

Fit for Whose Purpose?: How Panelists Interpret Labor Rights in Trade, and What That Tells Us about the Trade/Labor Relationship

While many of us were celebrating the holidays with family, an important law review article dropped silently and inconspicuously into the fray. That article, Fit for Purpose: The Extent and Enforcement of International Trade Agreement Labor Obligations After Guatemala – Labor Obligations Decision, was written by Professor Kevin Banks, who served

Countering the "Unfettered Liberalization" Narrative

At a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event today, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the following: But I think that we have pursued a really unfettered liberalization policy for the past many years and decades. And it is part of what has brought us to this current reality

Tai: "A Lot of Potential" for Coordinating U.S./EU approaches to China

This is from a two part interview by CNN's Julia Chatterley with U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai: Chatterley: Another, and it's been described as a pivot point actually, in the relationship between the EU and the United States, when we spoke to the French finance