Katherine Tai

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2018 file photo, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

US officials to investigate labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua

A U.S. official says the Biden administration is opening an investigation into labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua.

FILE - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, May 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Top US trade official sees progress in helping workers. Voters will decide if her approach continues

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris, center, accompanied by from left, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, speaks at a U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue meeting in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Mexico’s economy secretary on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, proposed yet another round of talks with the United States on a dispute over Mexico’s energy sector. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Mexico tells US it wants to keep talking on trade disputes

FILE - An electric vehicle charges at a shopping center in Emeryville, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022. A new tax credit for U.S. buyers of qualifying electric vehicles made in North America has ignited the specter of a trade war as a domestic imperative of the Biden administration and Democrats collides with the complex realities of globalization. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

EU: US electric vehicle tax credit reduces buyers’ choices

FILE - A newly built power generation plant that is part of a mega-energy project is seen with the Popocatepetl Volcano in the background near Huexca, Morelos state, Mexico, on Feb. 22, 2020. The United States is putting pressure on Mexico over energy policies that Washington says unfairly favor Mexico's state-owned electricity and oil companies over American competitors and clean-energy suppliers. The U.S. is demanding talks to resolve the dispute, starting a process Wednesday, July 20, 2022, that could end in trade sanctions against Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

US demands talks on Mexican energy policies it calls unfair

Top US trade official sees progress in helping workers. Voters will decide if her approach continues

As the U.S. trade representative, Katherine Tai is legally required to not discuss this year’s presidential election, but her ideas about fair trade are on the ballot in November.

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Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi talks to media in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 23, 2022. Bianchi told journalists that the U.S. and four other nations walked out of a meeting on Saturday of trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic forum when the representative from Russia to protest its attacks on Ukraine. Chile and South Korea on Monday joined the five protesting nations -- the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand in a statement making the same point. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

US, others say APEC walkout aimed at Russia over invasion

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 20, 2022. With world economies all suffering from more than two years of the coronavirus pandemic and global supply problems exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United States has an "incredible opportunity" to engage with other nations from a common playing field and forge new partnerships and agreements, the top U.S. trade negotiator told The Associated Press.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

The AP Interview: US trade rep. sees opportunity in recovery

FILE- In this May 29, 2020, photo, Eric Pray unpacks a lobster on a wharf in Portland, Maine. Maine’s congressional leaders say China has failed to live up to its promise to buy more Maine lobster under a deal that eased a trade war under former President Donald Trump. Maine lobster industry exports were hurt by retaliatory Chinese tariffs in 2018 and the lawmakers say the Maine lobster industry failed to see substantial export gains after China committed to buying more U.S. goods. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

China accused of failing to buy more Maine lobster

FILE - Workers install the nameplate of the Beijing Stock Exchange on the Financial Street in Beijing, Nov. 14, 2021. China on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, rejected a U.S. accusation that Beijing is failing to live up to its market-opening commitments in a new round of complaints as companies wait for the two governments to restart talks on ending a tariff war. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China rejects US trade complaint, criticizes Washington

FILE - Shipping containers are seen at a port of Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. The United States has accused China in a report Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, of failing to meet its commitments to the World Trade Organization. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

US accuses China of backing away from free-trade commitments

FILE - An altar constructed from recycled material of a vaquita porpoise skull is pictured during a march in support of the endangered porpoise, in Mexico City, Feb. 17, 2018. The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office filed the first environmental complaint against Mexico Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, for failing to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

US files 1st USMCA environment case on Mexico over porpoise

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, to examine expanding broadband access, focusing on the Department of Commerce broadband programs in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

US and Japan reach deal to make most steel imports tax-free

FILE - In this May 9, 2019, photo, steel rods produced at the Gerdau Ameristeel mill in St. Paul, Minn. await shipment. The United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to begin talks on removing former President Donald Trump's import taxes on British steel and aluminum. In a joint statement Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022 U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.K. Trade Minister Anne-Marie Tevelyan said they would be working toward a swift deal that ensures the viability of the steel and aluminum industries in both countries and also “strengthens their democratic alliance.'' (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

US, UK begin talks on lifting Trump’s steel tariffs

U.S. President Joe Biden, Democratic Republic of Congo's President and African Union Chair Felix Tshisekedi, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, from row from left, pose with other world leaders for a group photo at the La Nuvola conference center for the G20 summit in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

US, EU reach agreement to settle rift over Trump-era tariffs

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai speaks during a discussion, at the Geneva Graduate Institute on the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the global economy, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. A top U.S. trade official says the Biden administration remains committed to an easing of rules that protect the technology behind coronavirus vaccines so that they can be produced more widely. Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative, acknowledged some nongovernmental groups and others outside the talks might perceive the U.S. to have maintained “silence” on the issue in recent months. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

US reaffirms support for easing WTO rules on COVID vaccines

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2021, file photo, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai speaks at the beginning of the "Workforce Management into. Tech Jobs" roundtable during the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), in Pittsburgh. China and the U.S. held a virtual meeting on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, regarding the two countries' fraught trade relationship, after a lengthy break in negotiations. China's top trade negotiator Liu He called U.S. Trade Representative Tai to discuss the “Phase 1” trade deal, negotiated under the Trump administration, along with other major economic concerns, according to a statement from China's Commerce Ministry. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke, File)

China, US officials hold meeting on fraught trade issues

A man walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. Shares have fallen in Asia after a broad slide on Wall Street led by technology companies. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Asian shares slide after big-tech sell-off on Wall Street

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai, left, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend the inaugural meeting of the United States-European Union Trade and Technology Council (TTC) at the Hazelwood Green Mill 19 building, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

US, EU agree to further trade and technology talks

US raises concerns on Mexico’s nationalistic energy policy

FILE - In this May 7, 2021 file photo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. Yellen says that the economic recovery is going to be “bumpy” with high inflation readings likely to last through the end of this year. But Yellen maintained Thursday, May 27, that the inflation pressures will be temporary and if they do threaten to become embedded in the economy, the government has the tools to address that threat. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

China trade envoy, US Treasury secretary meet by video

US, Chinese trade war envoys talk; no sign of negotiations

Germany's Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier, right, greets France's Foreign Trade Minister Franck Riester prior to a European Foreign Trade ministers meeting at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

EU ministers seek to cement trade ties with Biden team

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump, center, sits between Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto after they signed a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is replacing the NAFTA trade deal, during a ceremony at a hotel before the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. U.S. and Mexican unions have filed on Monday, May 10, 2021, the first labor complaint against Mexico under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade pact. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, file)

US files first trade complaint with Mexico under USMCA

FILE - In this April 28, 2021, file photo, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai testifies during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration is throwing its support behind efforts to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to speed the end of the pandemic. Tai announced the government's position in May 5 statement, amid World Trade Organization talks over easing global trade rules to enable more countries to produce more of the life-saving vaccines. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP, File)

US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines

A person getting a Johnson & Johnson vaccine by a health care worker at the one-time pop-up vaccination site located 16th Street beach on the sand on Sunday, May 2, 2021 in Miami Beach. The one-time vaccination site made possible by Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson and the Florida Division of Emergency Management will administer up to 250 Johnson & Johnson vaccines. (David Santiago/Miami Herald via AP)

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Myanmar's security forces deploy on Hledan road in Kamayut township of Yangon in Myanmar, Monday, March 29, 2021. Over 100 people across the country were killed by security forces on Saturday alone, including several children. Myanmar aircraft also carried out three strikes along the country's border overnight Sunday, according to a member of the Free Burma Rangers, a humanitarian relief agency that delivers medical and other assistance to villagers. (AP Photo)

Stepping up Myanmar coup penalties, US suspends trade deal

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Senate confirms Katherine Tai as Biden’s top trade envoy

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2020, file photo Katherine Tai, the Biden administration's choice to take over as the U.S. trade representative, speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. President Joe Biden’s pick to be the top U.S. trade envoy is promising to work with America’s allies to combat China’s aggressive trade policies. In a written testimony for her confirmation hearing Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, before the Senate Finance Committee, Tai, Biden's choice for U.S. trade representative, said she would “prioritize rebuilding our international alliances and partnerships, and re-engaging with international institutions'' to present Beijing with “a united front of U.S. allies.'' (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden’s trade pick vows to work more closely with allies