Reuters
Senators demand US trade chief Tai halt late talks on investor protections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Wednesday called on U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to stop “secret negotiations” with Mexico, Canada and Colombia that they say would weaken investor protections in some U.S. free trade deals during the Biden administration’s final days. The letter, led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, a Republican, and the panel’s top Democrat, Ron Wyden, said Tai was seeking to reach binding agreements on legal interpretations of investment protections before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Monday.
