October 26,2023
Washington, D.C.—Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Finance Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), Steve Daines (R-Montana), Todd Young (R-Indiana), John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) decision to end U.S. support for combatting China’s predatory practices in international digital trade negotiations.
“We have warned for years that either the United States would write the rules for digital trade or China would. Now, the Biden Administration has decided to give China the pen.
“The USTR announced in Geneva that it will abandon support for proposals made during the Trump Administration to…
