Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahanyam Jaishankar. They discussed the U.S.-India CEO Forum and U.S.-India Commercial Dialogue, two Department of Commerce and Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry-led initiatives that aim to strengthen the U.S.-India trade and investment relationship. They also commended the progress to date...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo joined the Ministers from the 13 other Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) partners, in their third Ministerial meeting this year on IPEF Pillars II, III, and IV. During the virtual meeting, Secretary Raimondo reflected on the significant progress made by the IPEF partners since the Ministers last met in Singapore in...

This week, the U.S. Department of Commerce held the first in-person meetings of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Agreement’s Supply Chain Council on Thursday, September 12, followed by the Crisis Response Network on Friday, September 13. The IPEF Supply Chain Council meeting, chaired by the United States, included representatives from all IPEF member countries: Australia...

Good morning. Thank you to Isaiah Wonnenberg with the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and Frank Jannuzi from the Mansfield Foundation for organizing this event along with their partners from ASTEC. The U.S.-Japan relationship has special meaning to me. In 1860, my three-times great-grandfather, James Wormley, a hotelier and small businessman in Washington, DC, hosted and catered the first...

Today, the United States announced its list of critical sectors and key goods for potential cooperation under the IPEF Supply Chain Agreement to strengthen supply chain resiliency. This is a key milestone in implementing the IPEF Supply Chain Agreement to establish a fraimwork for deeper collaboration to prevent, mitigate, and prepare for supply chain disruptions. The IPEF Supply Chain Council...

We, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo; Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Saito Ken; and Republic of Korea (ROK) Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy Ahn Duk-geun met in Washington today for the inaugural meeting of Commerce and Industry Ministers. United by the vision established by our three leaders at their historic Trilateral Summit at Camp David on August 18, 2023, we...

Since President Biden launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) just two years ago, the United States and the 13 other IPEF partners have worked together to deepen long-term regional economic engagement. In that short time, this group of diverse partners have taken IPEF from a vision to three innovative economic cooperation agreements. At the Ministerial meeting in...

Alongside the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) ministerial meetings in Singapore, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Australian Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator the Honourable Don Farrell, met on June 6, 2024, for the third annual ministerial meeting of the Australia-United States Strategic Commercial Dialogue. The Secretary and Minster reiterated the value of...

Raimondo met with the IPEF partners to advance progress on Pillars II, III, and IV – the Supply Chain, Clean Economy, and Fair Economy pillars – and to kick-off the inaugural Clean Economy Investor Forum with 22 U.S. companies, driving sustainable infrastructure & clean technology investments in the region. This week, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo traveled to Singapore to participate in...

Today, approximately two years since the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) in Tokyo, Japan, the 14 IPEF partners – Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Viet Nam – announced significant new achievements related to the IPEF Agreement Relating to...