House Ways & Means Cmte Chair Neal: We Would Like Trade Deals w/EU & UK

In ranging remarks to the Washington International Trade Association, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) says that he would 'very much like' the US to agree a trade deal with the EU, while adding that it 'makes sense' to move on with the US-UK bilateral deal given that the Brexit deal avoided a hard border on the island of Ireland.

• Says that the US' relationship with China needs to be more 'strategic' given his concerns about China's hard line on Hong Kong, Taiwan. As an aside, this attitude is common among Biden administration and many Congressional Democrats, limiting the prospect for a rapid improvement in Sino-US relations under the new administration.
• Neal on supposed use of forced labour in China: "We need to continue to raise our voices in chorus with the rest of the world in terms of calling attention to what forced labour does."
• Neal on trade and climate change: "We need everyone in the WTO as a minimal requirement to embrace the policies as they relate to climate change."