An ambitious trade agenda is key to resilient US supply chains 

On Sept. 10, the Commerce Department will host a summit on “proactively strengthening supply chain resilience.” If the Biden administration is serious about this goal, it needs to begin by reinvigorating its lackluster trade agenda. 

Since COVID, there has been strong bipartisan support to ensure that critical supply chains are not disrupted by acts of nature or adversaries' belligerence. The scale of this task is epic. 

McKinsey reports, for example, that the average automaker has 250 tier-one suppliers and a base of 18...