Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is in the US to negotiate Washington’s demands as part of trade talks ahead of an August deadline, according to people familiar with the matter.
Aurangzeb’s visit comes after an earlier Pakistani delegation was given an exhaustive list of demands from the US to cut the country’s tariff and non-tariff barriers as conditions for a trade deal, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak on the matter. Pakistan earlier expected to wrap up a deal by early July, but the talks are taking longer than expected.