APEC countries focus on sustainability, digital transformation amid uncertainty

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...