US Picks Negotiators for Biden’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
- Sharon Yuan will head up staff-level efforts for Commerce
- Dawn Shackleford chosen for key US Trade Representative role
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President Joe Biden’s administration has chosen the top staff negotiators to help lead talks on a long-awaited economic initiative for Asia that it plans to inaugurate during his trip to the region that begins Friday, according to people familiar with the plans.
Sharon Yuan, a veteran of the Treasury Department who worked on the abandoned Trans-Pacific Partnership, has been hired to oversee staff work on the main points of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, or IPEF, according to the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss the arrangements.