U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Wednesday defended the Biden administration's decision not to pursue traditional free trade deals and argued her approach of working to ease non-tariff barriers is better for workers, supply chains and the U.S. ability to compete with China. In a policy speech at American University's Washington College of Law, Tai said she is starting to change minds in Washington and in other capitals that the traditional approach of cutting tariffs no longer works in the highly competitive global economy of the 21st century. "We are writing a new story on trade, one that makes us...