Inside Trade

December 7, 2024

APEC countries focus on sustainability, digital transformation amid uncertainty

By Hannah Monicken  / November 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation country leaders and ministers are touting outcomes from recent meetings related to sustainable trade and the digital economy – including a push to update a list of environmental goods and services and a supply chain connectivity effort – even as the coming change in U.S. leadership, and the new administration’s tariff-centric plans, loom large. President Biden, along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, were in Lima, Peru, over the weekend...

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