Any prioritizing of the U.S. trade partners would place China, India, Japan and the European Union (EU) higher on the list with regard to
barriers than either Canada or Mexico.
Those barriers with China, of course, take precedence given the volume of trade conducted between the world’s two biggest economies, and the relative inequality in market access for U.S. exporters and multinationals. The coalition pointed to the positive effects the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) might have had in coercing China to provide a more level playing field to U.S. business.