Asked whether the US will rejoin the CPTPP, Schott stated that he does not believe the US government will restart the process anytime soon. Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. He was an official of the US Treasury Department (1974–82) in international trade and energy policy. During the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations, he was a member of the US delegation that negotiated t ...