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Both Biden and Harris have aligned with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party on commerce and took comparable positions once they ran towards one another through the 2020 major. But a few of Biden’s positions have departed from stances he took as Barack Obama’s vice chairman.
As a Senate candidate in 2016, Harris opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration, amid criticisms from labor and environmental teams that it will transfer jobs to lower-income international locations like Vietnam. The commerce deal by no means got here to a vote in Congress, and Trump withdrew from the pact shortly after changing into president.
Biden, in the meantime, was a vocal supporter of the TPP as vice chairman. But through the 2020 presidential marketing campaign, he stated he “wouldn’t rejoin the TPP because it was initially put ahead” — as a substitute, he would renegotiate the pact to present labor and environmental teams extra affect over the ultimate particulars of the settlement.
But Biden has not executed that as president. Nor has he negotiated some other new free commerce agreements.
Harris voted towards the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement, Trump’s substitute for NAFTA, saying it wouldn’t do sufficient to guard Americans’ jobs and the setting. (It handed the Senate 89-10.) “In a Harris administration,” she stated at one level, “there can be no commerce deal that might be signed until it protected American employees and it protected our surroundings.”
Biden initially opposed the USMCA, however modified his place after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi negotiated adjustments favored by Democrats.
