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Great to kick off our @NFTC Foundation virtual conference w/ Katherine Tai, Pres-elect Biden's nominee for US Trade Representative. Tai: "We will use trade, in coord. w/ both internat'l & domestic economic tools, to create a more inclusive prosperity for America & for Americans."
"The President-elect's vision is to implement a worker-centered trade policy. What this means in practice is that U.S. trade policy must benefit regular Americans, communities, and workers."
Chief among the accomplishments of past several yrs was "successfully renewing & remediating the trade agreement that knits together the economies of the US, Canada & Mexico...a replacement for a 25-year-old agreemt that started the erosion of U.S. political support for trade."
"USMCA is notable for including groundbreaking labor and environmental provisions, including enforcement mechanisms that address longstanding wounds and grievances suffered by regular working people."
"The challenge for us going forward is to make sure that we continue to tend to this agreement, to nurture what is working and to correct course when parties falter and stray from old and new commitments."
