Weekly Trade Focus: APEC
Every week, the USTR website will explore a new trade topic, with background information and current trade data. On July 21 and 22, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will be in Singapore at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial meeting - so this week's trade topic is U.S. trade relations with APEC member economies.
A Message from Acting Secretary of Commerce Dr. Rebecca Blank on USTR's 50th Anniversary
A Message from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on USTR's 50th Anniversary
Calendar of Events
Agenda (tentative—subject to change)
Day One—October 4, Winfield House (U.S. Ambassador’s Residence)
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Welcoming Reception Hosted by U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman
Feedback We've Received
“This Administration deserves to be commended for the outreach in which it has engaged. The cleared advisors for the AFL-CIO and its affiliates have spent dozens of hours discussing with Administration negotiators the specific issues that are involved in the TPP talks and offering concrete recommendations. We have appreciated the spirit of cooperation and dialogue exhibited by the Administration at all levels… |
TPP Stakeholder Information
Negotiators Brief Stakeholders at Dallas TPP Talks
Yesterday, lead negotiators from each of the nine Trans-Pacific Partnership countries sat down for a briefing and conversation with dozens of stakeholders interested in the progress, process, and substance of the 12th round of TPP talks happening outside Dallas, Texas this week. Some highlights: