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Both Biden and Harris have aligned with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party on commerce and took related positions after they ran in opposition to one another throughout the 2020 main. 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 might 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 throughout the 2020 presidential marketing campaign, he stated he “wouldn’t rejoin the TPP because it was initially put ahead” — as an alternative, he would renegotiate the pact to offer labor and environmental teams extra affect over the ultimate particulars of the settlement.
But Biden has not carried out that as president. Nor has he negotiated every other new free commerce agreements.
Harris voted in opposition to the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement, Trump’s alternative for NAFTA, saying it wouldn’t do sufficient to guard Americans’ jobs and the atmosphere. (It handed the Senate 89-10.) “In a Harris administration,” she stated at one level, “there can be no commerce deal that will be signed until it protected American employees and it protected the environment.”
Biden initially opposed the USMCA, however modified his place after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi negotiated adjustments favored by Democrats.
