U.S., Ecuador hold first environmental committee meeting under their TIC

The U.S. and Ecuador this week discussed illegal logging and fishing, among other issues, during the inaugural meeting of an environmental committee under the U.S.-Ecuador Trade and Investment Council, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced. Assistant USTR for the Environment and Natural Resources Kelly Milton led the U.S. delegation to Quito and chaired the meeting, while Edwin Vásquez, under secretary for negotiations at Ecuador’s Trade Ministry, and Ángel Sandoval, under secretary of climate change at the Environment Ministry,...