Sources: IPEF trade facilitation commitments could go beyond TFA

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity trade facilitation chapter will include obligations to implement the World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement and could feature some measures that go beyond it, according to sources who say the chapter is among the most developed – and least contentious – of those under discussion as negotiators meet for a fifth round of talks. IPEF members kicked off the round in Bangkok on Sunday, just a little more than two months before the countries’...