The United States will promote consistent and well-regulated food safety conformance, as well as the adoption of sound competition laws and create an anticorruption roadmap.

APEC 2023 will focus on food security, food safety, sustainable productivity growth, the promotion of innovation and science-based and risk-proportionate policies, specifically agriculture biotechnology, and international trade standards.

APEC 2023 will highlight the ongoing efforts and opportunities to reduce disaster risk. This effort must go together with climate adaptation and prioritizing equity in emergency management programs in each economy. The APEC Disaster Risk Reduction Framework will continue to guide APEC’s efforts.

The United States will advance the digital economy and facilitate inclusive innovation, including in digital trade, digital assets and payments, data privacy, telecommunication networks, cybersecurity, digital health, e-commerce, and emerging technologies.

The United States will support efforts to improve waste management systems and services, and facilitating greater reuse, recycling, and recovery of materials, including plastic, as well as efforts to address deforestation by combatting illegal logging and associated trade.

APEC must initiate new workstreams and build on existing workstreams, starting with endorsing updated and ambitious clean energy and sustainability targets.