{"id":4174,"date":"2025-06-26T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:54:46","slug":"pak-us-trade-talks-near-conclusion-major-deal-expected-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/26\/pak-us-trade-talks-near-conclusion-major-deal-expected-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Pak-US Trade Talks Near Conclusion, Major Deal Expected Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"87\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are on the verge of finalizing a landmark trade agreement, following a significant breakthrough in their ongoing negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"458\">Federal Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a virtual session with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to discuss reciprocal tariffs and streamline the remaining technical details.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"491\"><strong data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"491\">Final Phase of Negotiations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"816\">The Ministry of Finance confirmed that both sides aim to wrap up talks and sign the agreement next week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"816\">Officials from both nations expressed satisfaction over the progress, describing the latest meeting as \u201cconstructive and forward-moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"816\">The parties will spend the coming days resolving final points of contention.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"818\" data-end=\"846\"><strong data-start=\"818\" data-end=\"846\">Boost for Bilateral Ties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"848\" data-end=\"1101\">The upcoming deal is expected to strengthen economic cooperation, with potential for collaboration across multiple sectors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"848\" data-end=\"1101\">Both Islamabad and Washington believe the agreement will provide mutual benefits and open new avenues for trade and investment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1267\">Finance ministry sources say the accord will inject fresh momentum into bilateral relations, aligning with broader efforts to enhance strategic and commercial ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are on the verge of finalizing a landmark trade agreement, following a significant breakthrough in their ongoing negotiations. Federal Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a virtual session with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to discuss reciprocal tariffs and streamline the remaining technical details. Final Phase of Negotiations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2025,2023,2024],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-business","tag-economicboost","tag-tradedeal","tag-uspakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}