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Katherine Tai

USTR vows to resolve EU trade spats, but largely mum on China

04/28/21 3:24 PM By Bill Tomson

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai promised lawmakers Wednesday that work has begun to work out trade disputes with the European Union and the UK to create what President Joe Biden calls “a united front of U.S. allies,” but she largely left questions about China unanswered as the U.S. continues to study the situation.


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Daybreak April 21: Ag climate bill sets stage for climate action

04/21/21 9:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, Spencer Chase, and Ben Nuelle

The last time a Democratic administration tried to pass climate legislation, in 2009, the bill died in the Senate partly because of resistance from farm groups. This year, one of the first significant climate bills a congressional committee is going to vote on is a measure backed by farm groups – the Growing Climate Solutions Act, which is aimed at facilitating the development of ag carbon markets.


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US signals a turn to the green on trade and asks world to follow

04/21/21 6:48 AM By Bill Tomson
The U.S. was one of nine countries critical of the European Union last year when it unveiled a plan to tax imports based on their carbon footprint, but that was under the Trump administration. Now the Biden administration is signaling a stronger kinship to the EU’s push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on an international scale.
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Katherine Tai

USTR: Environmental protection to play a bigger role in US trade policy

04/15/21 2:10 PM By Bill Tomson
Some of the most vocal criticisms of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement was that it did not include provisions to address climate change. It’s a view that U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Thursday that she shares and went on to provide rationale for making environmental protection a much bigger factor in future of trade policy.
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Daybreak March 31: Scott: Debt relief unrelated to reparations

03/31/21 11:00 AM By Bill Tomson, Ben Nuelle, and Steve Davies

Some advocates of the newly-enacted debt relief provisions for minority farmers have called it a form of reparations. But House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott, who is African American, strenuously objects to that characterization. He says the $4 billion just makes up for the fact that white farmers primarily benefitted from the billions of dollars in recent farm payments.



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