USTR Aims for Progress on Several Trade Fronts with Busy Days Ahead
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative launched a busy week of wide-ranging trade diplomacy on Feb. 23, as USTR Michael Froman championed the U.S. trade agenda before the National Associations of Counties in Washington, the agency said in its weekly schedule. Deputy USTR Robert Holleyman is scheduled to speak to a Personal Care Products Council meeting on the same day, and Assistant USTR for the World Trade Organization Mark Linscott will address the International Chamber of Commerce and U.S. Council for International Business in Miami.
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The next day, Froman will host European Union ambassadors in a closed-door meeting in Washington and Darci Vetter, chief USTR agricultural negotiator, will speak to a National Potato Council annual Washington fly-in on Feb. 24. Froman will sign a U.S.-East African Community agreement on trade facilitation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade on Feb. 26, and then host an EAC ministerial meeting. That same day, Acting Deputy USTR Wendy Cutler will also participate in a U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement panel at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Vetter will take part in two trade events in Scottsdale from Feb. 26-27. Deputy Assistant USTR Carlos Romero will then wrap up the week with participation in a U.S. report release on Honduran labor issues in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.