On March 22, 2017 the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a statement announcing that the United States and Laos met for the first time under the U.S.-Laos Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA).
The U.S.-Laos TIFA was signed in February 2016. According to the notice, “The United States and Laos discussed the importance of expeditiously addressing key bilateral issues, including digital trade, agriculture and sanitary and phytosanitary standards, intellectual property, autos, investment, good governance, labor, and illegal logging and wildlife trafficking.”
The meeting was chaired by Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Barbara Weisel and Laos’s Commerce Deputy Minister Somchith Inthamith.
The full notice can be accessed at:
https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2017/march/us-and-laos-hold-inaugural-meeting