Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Dec. 21 sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tsai demanding answers about how the Biden administration plans to respond to Beijing’s chronic violation of the terms of its World Trade Organization (WTO) membership and failure to comply with the phase one U.S.-China trade agreement.
Coming just days after the 20th anniversary of China’s admission to the WTO, the letter calls attention to a range of abusive and illegal practices on the part of Beijing, from intellectual property theft to causing the loss of millions of U.S. jobs and failing to follow through on a target purchase of $378 billion worth of U.S. goods as agreed under phase one trade deal signed in January 2020.
