Froman Set for DC Meetings, Speeches This Week Before Trip to Brussels
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will speak at a Foreign Policy Group session on Nov. 17, and later in the day he’ll meet with Daniel Yohannes, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said the Office of…
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the USTR in a weekly schedule update (here). Froman will stay in Washington, D.C. for the first part of the week to meet separately on Nov. 18 with German Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas and Director General of the International Labor Organization Guy Ryder. The USTR chief will deliver a set of speeches at the Wilson Center and the U.S. Council for International Business on Nov. 19, and then depart for Brussels on the following day. There he will convene with newly appointed commissioners, which could include European Union trade chief Cecilia Malmstrom. The new European Commission, led by Jean-Claude Juncker, took its seat at the beginning of January.