Trade must transform its role in the social contract

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The writer is the US trade representative

During the peak of the pandemic, the Financial Times wrote of the need for a new “social contract that benefits everyone” and for radical reforms to reverse “the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades”. Poignantly, the piece noted that, just as the…