Fact Sheet

The United States and Japan share a common interest in strengthening supply chains between like-minded partners and increasing resilience against threats such as economic coercion and non-market policies and practices, as well as encouraging high-road labor and environmental standards.

WASHINGTON – Ambassador Tai continues to execute President Biden’s vision of a new, worker-centered approach to trade policy that grows the economy from the bottom up and the middle out as she approaches the two-year anniversary as the 19^th United States Trade Representative on March 18, 2023.

WASHINGTON – Ambassador Katherine Tai and the Office of the United States Trade Representative today delivered President Biden’s 2023 Trade Policy Agenda and 2022 Annual Report to Congress.  This report details USTR’s work to implement the Biden Administration’s trade priorities and advance an inclusive, worker-centered trade policy.
 

Newly announced initial partners represent about 90 percent of the Western Hemisphere’s GDP
 

The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) held its third ministerial meeting on December 5 at the University of Maryland in College Park. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai co-chaired the meeting with European Commission Executive Vice Presidents Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis to discuss progress and advance concrete action on transatlantic cooperation that demonstrate our approach to trade, technology, and innovation in line with democratic principles and universal human rights.

For more than two decades, Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have negotiated how to address the use of harmful subsidies in the fisheries sector.  Through extensive U.S.