A bipartisan group of 32 senators – including the Senate Finance Committee leaders – is calling on President Biden to reversing a decision to drop long-standing US positions at the World Trade Organization on digital trade.
The US Trade Representative’s Office recently pulled back from supporting provisions on the free flow of data across borders and prohibiting forced localization of data as part of ongoing e- commerce negotiations at the WTO.
“Retreating from our longstanding principles without offering a viable alternative does not help US workers, it does not help US consumers, it does not help US businesses, and it does not help US allies; it only helps our adversaries,” the senators wrote in a letter to President Biden.
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