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The top stories from the latest issue of our weekly newsletter. Digital trade emerges as IPEF key, in search of balancing divergent interests . An Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity ministerial set for Saturday in Detroit, where an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation trade session is underway, is considered likely to yield an agreement on IPEF’s supply chain pillar . But the key emergent issue involves the direction of digital trade negotiations, considered a key component of the total package. Divergent...