Rep. Adrian Smith: ‘Options open’ for how to renew trade programs

Lawmakers should be “strategic” in efforts to renew expired trade programs like the Generalized System of Preferences, according to House Ways & Means trade subcommittee Chair Adrian Smith (R-NE), who says he is open to considering options to move such programs on their own or combined with other legislation. Smith, who became chair of the subcommittee earlier this year after the Republicans took control of the House, told Inside U.S. Trade in an interview Thursday that supply chain woes...