Senate unanimously confirms Katherine Tai as next U S trade representative agweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from agweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Getting Images Former Congressional staffer Katherine Tai brings bipartisan support and promises of transparency to lead President Biden’s trade efforts.
The Senate approved the nomination of Katherine Tai to serve as the next U.S. Trade Representative ambassador, with the first vote Tuesday on cloture and the final vote coming Wednesday 98-0. As shown during her nomination hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, she has strong bipartisan support and a positive record of tackling trade policy on Capitol Hill and during a previous career postion USTR.
In remarks on the Senate floor ahead of the procedural vote to advance Tai, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., says she’s the “right choice” and detailed her qualifications and diversity of experience in addressing trade obstacles. Her parents grew up in China and she was raised in Thailand and speaks fluent Mandarin.
Tai unanimously confirmed as Biden s USTR ambassador farmprogress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from farmprogress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
wissanu01/iStock/Thinkstock. Fully funded export programs are critical to help U.S. farmers, ranchers and food exporters keep pace with the rest of the world’s exporting countries.
American farmers and rural businesses need continued investment in the Market Access Program (MAP) and the Foreign Market Development (FMD) Program to make up for lost export opportunities in the pandemic and to fight foreign competition. That is the message the Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports sent in letters to House and Senate Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee leaders. The letter was signed by 130 agricultural organizations, including American Feed Industry Association, National Chicken Council, National Pork Producers Council, National Milk Producers Federation, and National Cattleman’s Beef Association, North American Meat Institute, and the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
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