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USTR official: APEC services roadmap faces resistance from some countries

October 20, 2016 at 5:30 PM
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum's roadmap -- focused on eliminating all restrictions on trade in services by 2025 -- is meeting resistance from some APEC countries, according to Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for APEC Affairs Ken Schagrin. The forum is looking to develop APEC-wide targets in services liberalization, which include individual action plans to improve services statistics tracking "and the use of measurements such as trade restrictive indicators such as the OECD [Services Trade Restrictiveness Index] STRI to help...

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