Official negotiations on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework – the economic component of the US strategy to counter China in the Indo-Pacific that US President Joe Biden introduced in May – are set to start on Thursday in Los Angeles, when US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo sit down with their counterparts from 13 other participating countries.
One US priority, trade experts and Biden administration officials said, is to make sure it has uninterrupted access to so-called critical materials.
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