Katherine Tai

We have to produce our own critical minerals, or develop new relationships with allies that we can trust.

I think that, for a very long time, regular people, ordinary Americans and workers, have felt disconnected from our trade policies.

I am proud of their service to the Nation that welcomed them, and I am proud to live in a country where, in just one generation, their daughter could grow up to represent the United States and our interests around the world.

If you are an American and you work, you are an American worker, as I envision the way we are talking about this.

Transparency, predictability, due process, are all critical to the way we want our government to function.

The world is very different in important ways from the way the world was in 2015 and 2016.

Tariffs are a legitimate tool in the trade toolbox.

The key to using the USMCA and making it successful is to exercise the tools that were so hard-fought to be incorporated into the agreement.

I know that the challenges ahead are significant. Our first task will be to help American communities emerge from the pandemic and economic crisis.

That is a pattern that we are trying to break out of.

The basic formula of TPP... is still a sound formula.

Good governance, rule of law, anti-corruption are fundamental values that we as Americans want to hold ourselves to, and that we will want to hold our trading partners to.

I think that the Biden administration itself is committed to a holistic review on China, and U.S.-China strategy.

I want to acknowledge that, if confirmed, this will be an area that will require close coordination.

The chance to serve the American people, fight on their behalf, and represent them on the world stage once again will be the greatest honor of my life.

I believe that trade policy has a lot to contribute to the climate effort.

I know that the Biden administration is committed to cooperative multilateral efforts at the OECD and the G20.

Ms. Tai, you must make the President understand that trade is a domestic priority for hundreds of millions of Americans.

I expect Ms. Tai will well demonstrate in today's hearing that she has the requisite skillset to deliver as much.

If confirmed, working on the relationship with China on the implementation of the China agreement is absolutely critical.

The agreement that we have with China is the agreement that we have, and there are promises that China made that China needs to deliver on.

If the Biden administration wants a worker-centered trade policy, as it claims it does, then our USTR should ensure that the international trading regime strongly reflects American values rather than those of China.

I would like to thank you for this opportunity to clarify, when I talk about being confirmed and advancing a worker-centered trade policy, that 'workers' does absolutely include agricultural workers--our farmers, our small family farmers…

I think it is absolutely worth exploring with China, but I also want to note that those are conversations, and those are roads that have been well-worn by U.S. Trade Representatives before me.