{"id":83959,"date":"2025-07-19T09:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=83959"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:27:50","slug":"finance-minister-meets-u-s-secretary-commerce-ustr-to-strengthen-trade-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/finance-minister-meets-u-s-secretary-commerce-ustr-to-strengthen-trade-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister, meets U.S Secretary Commerce; USTR to strengthen trade ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation led by Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a productive meeting with U.S Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and United States Trade Representative (USTR), Ambassador Jamieson Greer in Washington, D.C on Friday.<br \/>\nBoth sides expressed satisfaction with the progress in enhancing trade and economic ties, a cornerstone of Pakistan-U.S bilateral relations. They reaffirmed their commitment to exploring opportunities to strengthen these ties in all possible areas of mutual benefit, according to press release issued by finance ministry here.<br \/>\nFinance Minister Aurangzeb emphasized that the U.S remains Pakistan\u2019s largest trading partner and underscored Pakistan\u2019s interest in expanding cooperation in both traditional and non-traditional sectors, including IT &#038; tech sector, minerals and agriculture,to foster a mutually beneficial relationship.<br \/>\nBoth parties expressed optimism that ongoing trade talks would yield positive outcomes, benefiting the economies of both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation led by Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a productive meeting with U.S Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and United States Trade Representative (USTR), Ambassador Jamieson Greer in Washington, D.C on Friday. Both sides expressed satisfaction with the progress in enhancing trade and economic ties, a cornerstone of Pakistan-U.S &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83987,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83959\/revisions\/83987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}