White House Names Senior ITA Official New Made in America Director

President Joe Biden on Oct. 12 named senior International Trade Administration official Livia Shmavonian to be head of the Made in America initiative. In the new role, Shmavonian will oversee use of federal procurement to back American manufacturing. The office was created under outgoing Director Celeste Drake within OMB to boost domestic manufacturing and raise the domestic content threshold for federal procurement from 55% to 75%. Shmavonian most recently worked as the ITA's director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs and senior adviser to the undersecretary. Before that, she was staff director for the Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global Competitiveness and senior adviser to Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.