Biden Inherits Litany of Unfinished Trade Issues From Trump

President-elect Joe Biden inherits a litany of unresolved trade issues from Donald Trump, posing an early test for his administration even as he focuses on taming Covid-19 and repairing the domestic economy.

As Biden takes office on Wednesday, the U.S. and China have tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of each other’s goods from their trade war. A long-running dispute with the European Union over illegal subsidies to Airbus and Boeing persists, the U.S. and U.K. have yet to reach a free-trade agreement, and the World Trade Organization is blocked from appointing a new leader because Trump objected to the leading choice.