December 17, 2021
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), John Cornyn (R-TX), Todd Young (R-IN), Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Tom Carper (D-DE) in a bipartisan letter calling on the administration to ensure that President Biden’s new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework pushes the world forward on issues of digital trade, technology and decarbonization. They also urged the administration to put digital trade at the forefront of the nation’s global economic agenda going forward, including by working with our allies in the Indo-Pacific.
“We welcome President Biden’s announcement at the East Asia Summit that the United States will work with regional partners to develop a new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. This is a positive step toward a more comprehensive trade agreement in the region. Many of the United States’ most significant trading…
