U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai listens to a reporter’s question at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan Thursday, April 20, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File) The rising political opposition to open trade from both the left and the right is an instance—one among many—of how today’s policy debates become decoupled from reality. On this Labor Day week, recognizing how our current trade and investment arrangements generate broad benefits for workers and consumers matters, lest the growing anti-trade faction unwittingly unravels them.
A recent essay by Robert Reich, an attorney and well-known former Democratic official, […]
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