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Associated Press

The Senate Finance Committee easily approved US President Joe Biden’s pick to be America’s top trade negotiator.
The panel on Wednesday confirmed Katherine Tai to be US trade representative on a voice vote.
Her nomination, which has received strong bipartisan support, will now go to the full Senate for approval.
Tai has promised to make sure that US trade policy benefits America’s workers, not just corporations, and to work more closely with US allies to counter an increasingly assertive China.


Fluent in Mandarin, Tai spent several years as the Office of the US Trade Representative’s head of China enforcement.
She last worked as the top trade staff member on the House Ways and Means Committee, where she handled negotiations with the Trump administration over a revamped North American trade deal.
China’s task ‘may be complicated’ if Katherine Tai lands top US trade job
Under pressure from congressional Democrats, Trump’s trade team agreed to strengthen the pact to make it easier for Mexican workers to form independent unions and demand better pay and benefits – decreasing the incentives for US firms to move south of the border to take advantage of cheap and compliant labour.
She and Biden have said little about how they will handle specific trade issues such as whether to keep former president Donald Trump’s import taxes on foreign steel and aluminium and on US$360 billion worth of Chinese products.


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The Mandarin-speaking Biden pick has vowed to work closely with US allies to counter an increasingly assertive China
Tai’s nomination, which has received strong bipartisan support, now heads to a vote by the full Senate



The Mandarin-speaking Biden nominee has vowed to work closely with US allies to counter an increasingly assertive China.
