Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 7/10/20

It’s been rather quiet on the campaign trail during the pandemic, but Biden on Thursday laid out what his campaign called a “build back better” plan to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, centered around strengthened “Buy American” rules for the federal government that he said would lead to $400 billion in new demand for U.S.-made products.

Trade deals can wait: Only after that plan is complete would Biden look to renegotiate trade deals signed by President Donald Trump or look to negotiate new ones, a senior campaign aide told our friends at Morning Trade.

“He's not gonna go in in 2021 and start talking about reentering or about entering new trade deals before he has done the work at home to make the investments in American job creation, American competitiveness and American communities,” said the aide.

“Trade negotiations over big trade deals is something that will in sequence follow a dramatic set of domestic investments.”

A China strategy: Still, the aide said Biden would engage allies right away to “present a common front to China on many of its abuses.” In a campaign document released ahead of the speech, Biden blasted Trump’s unilateral approach to China and pledged to take “aggressive trade enforcement actions against China” or other countries engaged in unfair trade practices.

“Trump’s go-it-alone trade war and empty 'phase one’ deal with China has been an unmitigated disaster, inflicting maximum pain on American workers and farmers, while doing nothing to curb Beijing’s trade abuses,” the campaign document said.