How the U.S. is ‘walking out’ on global trade
THE GREAT U.S. RETREAT: Michael Beeman, former assistant U.S. trade representative for Japan, Korea and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, says a Donald Trump presidency risks accelerating a shift away from the United States’ decades-old free trade consensus.
But he added that Harris is just as unlikely to restore U.S. trade engagement with the Asia-Pacific and developing countries and suspects she won’t resume Trump-era negotiations with the United Kingdom and Japan.