The Next World System: Can US Trade Policy Make Us More Secure?

Please join us June 15, in Washington, DC, to hear U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai discuss the future of U.S. trade and industrial policy and America’s efforts to build a more secure and fair international system.

Ambassador Tai will build on National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s recent seminal speech on “Renewing American Economic Leadership.” In that talk, Sullivan charted a dramatic shift in U.S. thinking about how to use trade policy to promote a “new Washington consensus” that aims to “build capacity, to build resilience, to build inclusiveness, at home and with partners abroad.”

This new vision of trade builds on President Biden’s efforts to restore fair competition, reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing and technological innovation, defend American workers and small businesses, ensure the security and resiliency of supply chains, and promote sustainable, resilient, and inclusive trade policies worldwide.

We’ll also hear from Tim Wu, recent White House Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy, who led the Administration’s charge to make promoting fair competition in our economy a whole-of-government priority through the 2021 executive order.

Financial Times Global Business Columnist Rana Foroohar, an Open Markets board member who has written extensively on the future of trade and global economics, will also participate.

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