USTR Tai Speaks on ‘Worker-Centered’ Trade Policy: Supply Lines

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai traveled to the election-year battleground state of Pennsylvania recently to discuss the Biden administration’s strategy with tariffs and industrial policy.

I interviewed Tai during the trip, and here’s what she had to say on some key issues:

US tariffs on China: “At the moment we are not negotiating anything with the PRC on trade, but one day we may be back at the table, in which case these tariffs will be useful as leverage, right?”

One reason for the continuation of the tariffs “is we really haven’t seen the PRC make any changes to its ...