State Department official: Trump administration ending APEP

The State Department has ended the Biden administration’s pursuit of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity and will instead seek to revamp an initiative from Trump’s first term aimed at boosting investment in the region, a department official tells Inside U.S. Trade . State’s Special Envoy for Latin America Mauricio Claver-Carone said in an email that “there’s nothing to continue with APEP, as it was a series of endless dialogues without concrete measures.” Claver-Carone is developing State’s “post-APEP strategy,”...