Former AUSTR: IPEF partners need to move quickly on deliverables

Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity partners this year must move quickly to outline concrete and meaningful deliverables for the three concluded IPEF pillars, a former assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific said this week. Barbara Weisel, the managing director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, left USTR in October 2017 after many years with the agency. As AUSTR, she was the U.S.’ chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership . During a Jan. 17 panel discussion on the...