Building a broad-based coalition for new trade and economic policies.
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Ambassador Katherine Tai was recently featured in @TableBriefings sharing her perspective on the United States’ role in the global economy and the challenges facing international trade.
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Big Tech should not be able to use U.S. trade policy to weaken privacy protections, AI safeguards, or competition laws abroad. Our report examines how trade policy is being used to challenge governments regulating powerful tech companies.
Read the report: coalitionfornewtrade.org/pub…
Ambassador Tai’s warning matters because it points to something bigger than one administration: America’s allies are changing how they think about the United States.
Read more: theatlantic.com/national-sec…
The economic mistakes of the 1920s and ’30s had a real cost on working people. We cannot repeat a system that rewards capital, limits policy choices, and leaves workers with less power.
Decades of trade policy prioritized corporate profits over workers, jobs, and domestic production. Putting workers at the center is how we begin rebuilding what was lost.
The current trade system reflects who has had access, power, and influence. That is exactly why worker-centered trade policy matters. People impacted by trade deserve more than an afterthought! Via the Capitalisn't Podcast.
Trade policy does not have to be an elite conversation written behind closed doors. Workers, unions, small businesses, family farmers, and communities deserve a say in the rules that shape our economy.
With @capital_isnt
Worker-centered trade means building policy around workers, families, small businesses, and communities. Not corporate interests. The way forward is to work together and ensure that trade policy benefits our people!
When power is concentrated in the hands of a few, collective action gives the many a voice. Do not give up hope!
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Addressing these issues WTO Ambassador Carmen Heidecke participated in a discussion during #AspenGermany’s German-American Trade and Tech Conference in Berlin. #GATTC2026
Amb. Katherine Tai joined UK Trades Union Congress General Secretary @nowak_paul at the @AFLCIO convening this week, reimagining a trade system that works for all workers and industries.
Learn more about what we’re building at coalitionfornewtrade.org
Great to meet with @AmbassadorTai today at @AFLCIO
Since we last met in 2024, Trump’s arbitrary tariffs have driven a coach and horses through efforts to have a worker-centred approach to trade.
We need 🌎 trade that works for workers, respects labour standards & engages unions
Pittsburgh showed up to demand a bold new blueprint for trade policy that respects working people, small businesses, and our communities.
Now is the time to fight for the next generation of trade policies and the respect these communities deserve!
With @PCGTW
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Amb. Tai:
Just like the magical thinking that prosperity is going to trickle down to everyday people, there is the notion that by just applying lots of tariffs, manufacturing's going to magically reappear in America.
Tariffs have to be consistent, targeted, and strategic.
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Amb Tai said the reason US trade policy has looked the way it has for a generation is simple:
Because the people doing the trade policy had never left Washington.
And the only people who knew where to find those policymakers were the people who work for the biggest companies.
Trade, regional cooperation, and the future of North America matter now more than ever.
Read more from Ambassador Katherine Tai’s analysis here: mexicobusiness.news/trade-an…
Free trade agreements can sound like cooperation, partnership, and friendship. But we need to look deeply and ask ourselves: who is really benefiting here?
Inequality is not just about income. It is about who holds power, who shapes markets, and who gets heard in our political system. We need trade that places our workers first.
The state is supposed to be there as the social contract that serves the public. That serves our communities. That’s how we keep democracy alive.
Our world needs new rules. Rules that work for our democracy, rules that work for our everyday people. Rules that imagine a better world for us all.
U.S. trade policy should not be used to protect Big Pharma’s profits at the expense of people who need affordable medicine.
Trade policy should serve the public interest.
Read our full report at coalitionfornewtrade.org/
