Business council rep: Tai exploring expansion of TIFA talks in Asia

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is exploring expanded trade and investment framework agreements with Association of Southeast Asian Nation member states as a way to deepen engagement with countries increasingly connected through regional trade agreements that don’t include the U.S., Ted Osius, the president and CEO of the US-ASEAN Business Council, tells Inside U.S. Trade. Tai on Tuesday met with Osius and other US-ASEAN Business Council members representing American companies in the technology, financial services, automotive, pharmaceutical and logistics...