USTR Agricultural Negotiator Siddiqui to Step Down in 2014, Says USTR

The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Chief Agricultural Negotiator Islam Siddiqui announced his intent to depart USTR early next year, USTR said in a Dec. 12 press release. Siddiqui has served in the Obama Administration since 2010. Siddiqui “played a key role in the Panama, Colombia, and Korea FTAs as well as progress on a variety of bilateral, plurilateral, and multilateral issues, most recently the successful WTO outcome in Bali this week,” said USTR Michael Froman in the release.