India, along with 13 other nations under the US-initiated Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), is likely to substantially close discussions on two more pillars – clean and fair economy – during the upcoming ministerial slated to take place in San Francisco next week.
With this, the negotiations related to three out of IPEF’s four pillars will be completed within a year-and-a-half since the launch of the economic initiative. Already, the legal scrubbing process of the second pillar – the supply chain resilience agreement – has now been completed.
IPEF is a 14-member grouping launched by US President Joe Biden last year with an