Office of the Us Trade Representative (Ustr) in the System of Regulation of Foreign Economic Relations of the United States under the Administration of J. Biden

Introduction. Legislative regulation of foreign trade operations in the United States is the responsibility of the federal authorities. The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has primary responsibility for developing and coordinating US policy on international trade, commodities, and direct investment, and overseeing trade negotiations with other countries. The priorities of managing the activities of the Office on the part of the Democratic administration of John Biden reveal the main direction of the international economic policy of the United States at the present stage.

Materials and methods. In preparing the article, the method of structural-functional, comparative analysis, expert, statistical, formal-logical, systemic methods, and the comparative-historical approach of a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of empirical data were used, which in modern conditions allows a well-known rethinking of approaches to assessing the mechanisms of public administration of foreign trade activities of leading countries world, in particular the United States, to form a vision that meets the requirements of the time of the most optimal ways to implement this form of regulation of foreign economic policy.

Results of the research. The Joe Biden administration's approach to using the Office of the US Trade Representative to further the United States' expansionist foreign economic aspirations is indicative of a general shift in focus from opening up new markets to pursuing "worker-centric" trade policies that seek to use the tools of international trade ties to maintain dominance. US position in world politics and the global economy. The study of the current system of state regulation of foreign trade in the United States makes it possible to identify the main priorities, goals and methods of building the country's foreign economic activity in line with the international policy pursued by the democratic administration of J. Biden, aimed at maintaining the dominant role of the United States within the unipolar world, to answer the question of how effectively such a system can actually help achieve the goals of official Washington in today's radically transforming world order.

Discussion and Conclusion. The methods of state administration of trade policy by the democratic administration of J. Biden, identified in the work, using the potential of a special federal body for the development, coordination, implementation and monitoring of the entire complex of foreign economic relations of the country - the Office of the US Trade Representative - reveal the mechanism of functioning of the system of state management of the foreign economic policy of the United States in the framework of the implementation Washington's strategic goals in the international arena.

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