WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee as top trade official, Katherine Tai, on Thursday said the United States and the European Union needed to come together to resolve a longstanding dispute over aircraft subsidies.
Tai said the dispute had contributed to the collapse of the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement system, and she looked forward to working to resolve it, if confirmed as U.S. Trade Representative.
“If confirmed, I would very much be interested in figuring out, pardon the pun, how to land this particular plane because it has been going on for a very long time,” Tai told her confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.
(Reporting by David Lawder and Andrea Shalal; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
