In an announcement published on January 7, 2025, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released “Adapting Trade Policy for Supply Chain Resilience: Responding to Today’s Global Economic Challenges.”
This series comes from USTR after “comprehensive” engagement with stakeholders, public comments provided through a Federal Register Notice, and testimony received in a public hearing in June 2024.
This document consists of the following policy papers:
- “Reshaping the Global Trade Paradigm”;
- “Sustaining Resilient Textile and Apparel Supply Chains”;
- “Harnessing Rules of Origin for Resilience”;
- “Countering Non-Market Policies and Practices to Strengthen Supply Chain Resilience”;
- “Improving Data and Analytical Tools to Promote Supply Chain Resilience”; and
- “Strengthening Supply Chain Resilience through Sectoral Trade Agreements”
USTR’s press release can be found here:
https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2025/january/ustr-publishes-policy-paper-series-supply-chain-resilience-0
“Adapting Trade Policies for Supply Chain Resilience: Responding to Today’s Global Economic Challenges” can be read here:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/USTR_Adapting%20Trade%20Policy%20for%20Supply%20Chain%20Resilience_0.pdf
