Biden 2023 Trade To-Do List Puts Frameworks, Rules Action at Top

  • USTR to advance Indo-Pacific, Latam partnership plans
  • Office to intensify work on cleaner steel, aluminum imports

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President Joe Biden’s 2023 trade agenda will focus on creating new frameworks outside traditional free-trade agreements and enforcement of existing pacts, his trade office said.

The administration is working with countries in Asia to advance the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, or IPEF, and on the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity with those in Latin America, the US Trade Representative’s office said in an annual report to Congress released Wednesday.