Sen. Cotton calls on Tai to use USMCA to block China’s CPTPP entry

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai should use provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement as “leverage” to block China’s entry into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). In an Oct. 5 letter to Tai, Cotton contended that China’s participation in CPTPP would have “major consequences” for the U.S. and would “reward the state-sponsored theft and economic coercion that has been a hallmark of the Chinese Communist Party.” A member of the Senate Intelligence and...