NAM president: FTAs key to combatting authoritarian threats

The Biden administration should pursue an ambitious trade agenda that includes forging free trade agreements with like-minded, and like-valued, allies as a key component of democratic coalition-building in the face of potential threats from authoritarian regimes, the head of the largest U.S. manufacturing group argued this week. National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons, in an interview with Inside U.S. Trade , called the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity and similar arrangements launched by the administration “an entry...