Describing the USTR’s willingness to write a trans-Pacific PTA from scratch, Simon Lester says “I feel like we are getting close to seeing what the Obama trade folks have in mind for this one part of trade policy.”

When will find out what the Obama administration plans for any part of trade policy? I’ve stopped tracking day-to-day trade politics, so maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen anything from the Obama folks about their plan for global economic engagement. Competitive liberalization may have been a bad idea, but at least the Bush administration made their strategy clear.