Bianchi: IPEF talks to follow aggressive schedule, but no deadlines yet set

The U.S. hopes to push an aggressive negotiating schedule for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi told Inside U.S. Trade on Monday, but the lead U.S. agency for the framework’s trade pillar is not eyeing a specific outcome or early harvest by year’s end. “We don’t have any kind of hard, early … deadlines that we need to hit, but we are looking to make aggressive progress on a number of issues,” she...