USTR SUPPLY CHAIN HEARING - Edward Gresser INTRODUCTION: GOALS AND PREMISES FOR POLICY DEVELOPMENT

I applaud the agency for thinking systemically about the way trade and investment policy mesh with logistics and production choices, and the way both public and private-sector decisions might affect the security of U. [...] Here, I am thinking in particular of the administration’s unwillingness over the last three years to engage in tariff liberalization or other reduction of trade barriers, and the limits this has put on the impact of the administration’s international economic policy. [...] 4 As the FRN notes, the last four years have provided some vivid illustrations of both the benefits of supply chains’ capacity to pool and amplify strengths and the risks of supply chain disruptions. [...] RESPONSES TO THREE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE QUESTIONS Let me now turn to several of the questions the FRN poses: Question 9 on priorities businesses set in sourcing decisions; Question 8 on the influence of the “rules of origin” in free trade agreements; Question 11 on the data that the U. [...] Relevant cases include the FDA for imports heavily regulated for health and safety, and the security and export control programs of the Defense Department and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security.