白宫
华盛顿特区
2022年5月23日
 
我们印度–太平洋（Indo-Pacific）地区各国，美国、澳大利亚、文莱达鲁萨兰国、印度、印度尼西亚、日本、大韩民国、马来西亚、新西兰、菲律宾、新加坡、泰国和越南，认识到我们生机勃勃的地区经济的丰富性和多样性。我们共同致力于一个自由、开放、公平、包容、互联互通、健强、安全及繁荣的印太地区，该地区拥有实现可持续的、包容性的经济增长的潜力。我们认识到我们在该地区的经济政策利益相互交织，而且深化合作伙伴之间的经济接触对于持续增长、和平及繁荣至关重要。
我们认识到新冠疫情凸显了共同密切努力以确保经济复苏和进步植根于复原力、可持续性以及包容性的必要性。这场疫情还着重显示出增强经济竞争力与合作以及保障关键性供应链的重要意义，同时刺激就业增长并改善经济机会，包括惠及我们的劳动者、妇女、中小型企业以及我们的社会中最弱势的群体。
从长远来看，经济竞争力将在很大程度上由我们利用技术、提倡创新、参与数字经济、公正地促使能源系统转型并实现能源安全，以及以一种产生公平的包容性增长并改善社会–经济福祉的方式应对气候危机的能力来界定。
为了让我们的经济为未来做好准备，我们正在启动建立印太经济繁荣框架（Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity）的进程。
这一框架旨在增进我们各国经济的健强性、可持续性、包容性、经济增长、公平性和竞争力。通过这项行动计划，我们力争为本地区内的合作、稳定、繁荣、发展及和平做出贡献。
我们邀请更多的拥有和我们共同的对该地区的目标、利益和雄心的印太伙伴参与进来。我们致力于以一种认识到技术帮助和能力建设的重要性，让我们能够保持一种有弹性的方针，并为我们的人民提供切实惠益的方式与我们的框架伙伴方进行协作。
今天，我们为今后有关以下几项支柱的谈判启动集体讨论。框架伙伴方将就增强经济合作以实现这些目标的多种方式参与这样的讨论，而且我们还邀请其他感兴趣的印太伙伴加入到我们之中。
贸易：我们寻求建立高标准的、包容的、自由及公平的贸易承诺，并制定贸易和技术政策中的新型且有创意的方针，推动能够驱动经济活动和投资、提倡具有可持续性和包容性的经济增长并惠及劳动者和消费者的范围广泛的一系列目标。我们的努力包括但不限于在数字经济中的合作。
供应链：我们致力于改善我们的供应链的透明度、多样性、安全性和可持续性，以使它们更具复原力并更好地一体化。我们寻求协调危机反应措施；扩大合作以便更好地应对并减轻种种干扰的影响，从而更好地确保经营的连续性；改善物流效率和支持；并确保对关键的原材料和加工材料、半导体、至关重要的矿物和清洁能源技术的获取。
清洁能源、去碳化和基础设施：根据我们的《巴黎协定》为支持我们的人民和劳动者的生计的各项目标和努力，我们计划加速清洁能源技术的开发和部署，以使我们的经济脱碳，并建设对各种气候影响的抗御力。这涉及深化就各项技术、包括优惠融资在内的调动融资以及寻求各种方式以便通过支持发展可持续的、持久的基础设施并提供技术帮助来提高竞争力并增强连通性进行合作。
税收和反腐败：我们致力于通过依据现有的多边义务、标准和协议，颁行并执行有效的、强有力的税收、反洗钱及反贿赂制度，在印太地区遏制逃税及腐败行径，以便增进公平竞争。这涉及分享专长并寻求各种途径，以支持推动负责任的、透明的制度所必须的能力建设。
我们将根据合作伙伴之间的磋商继续识别更多的合作领域，以增进我们的共同利益，旨在推动地区经济的连通性和一体化。我们期待着共同创造有利环境，以增强我们的经济体之间的商务、贸易和投资的流动，并为我们全体市场中的劳动者、公司企业和人民增强各项标准及获得机会的途径。
 
欲查看原稿内容:https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/23/statement-on-indo-pacific-economic-framework-for-prosperity/
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MAY 23, 2022•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
We, the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam of the Indo-Pacific region, acknowledge the richness and the diversity of our vibrant regional economy. We share a commitment to a free, open, fair, inclusive, interconnected, resilient, secure, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region that has the potential to achieve sustainable and inclusive economic growth. We acknowledge our economic policy interests in the region are intertwined, and deepening economic engagement among partners is crucial for continued growth, peace, and prosperity.
We recognize the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the imperative of working closely together to ensure that economic recovery and advancement are grounded in resilience, sustainability, and inclusivity.  The pandemic has also emphasized the importance of strengthening economic competitiveness and cooperation and securing critical supply chains, while stimulating job growth and improving economic opportunities, including for our workers, women, medium- and small-enterprises, and our societies’ most vulnerable groups.
In the long term, economic competitiveness will be largely defined by our ability to harness technology, promote innovation, participate in the digital economy, justly transition energy systems and achieve energy security, and tackle the climate crisis in a manner that produces equitable, inclusive growth and improves socio-economic welfare.
In order to prepare our economies for the future, we are launching the process to establish the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity.
This framework is intended to advance resilience, sustainability, inclusiveness, economic growth, fairness, and competitiveness for our economies.  Through this initiative, we aim to contribute to cooperation, stability, prosperity, development, and peace within the region.
We invite participation from additional Indo-Pacific partners that share our goals, interests, and ambitions for the region.  We are committed to collaborating with our framework partners in a manner that acknowledges the importance of technical assistance and capacity building, allows us to maintain a flexible approach, and delivers tangible benefits for our peoples.
Today, we launch collective discussions toward future negotiations on the following pillars.  Framework partners will be engaging in such discussions on various ways to strengthen economic cooperation to achieve these goals, and we invite other interested Indo-Pacific partners to join us.
Trade: We seek to build high-standard, inclusive, free, and fair trade commitments and develop new and creative approaches in trade and technology policy that advance a broad set of objectives that fuels economic activity and investment, promotes sustainable and inclusive economic growth, and benefits workers and consumers.  Our efforts include, but are not limited to, cooperation in the digital economy. Supply Chains: We are committed to improving transparency, diversity, security, and sustainability in our supply chains to make them more resilient and well-integrated.  We seek to coordinate crisis response measures; expand cooperation to better prepare for and mitigate the effects of disruptions to better ensure business continuity; improve logistical efficiency and support; and ensure access to key raw and processed materials, semiconductors, critical minerals, and clean energy technology.
Clean Energy, Decarbonization, and Infrastructure: In line with our Paris Agreement goals and efforts to support the livelihood of our peoples and workers, we plan to accelerate the development and deployment of clean energy technologies to decarbonize our economies and build resilience to climate impacts.  This involves deepening cooperation on technologies, on mobilizing finance, including concessional finance, and on seeking ways to improve competitiveness and enhance connectivity by supporting the development of sustainable and durable infrastructure and by providing technical assistance.
Tax and Anti-Corruption: We are committed to promoting fair competition by enacting and enforcing effective and robust tax, anti-money laundering, and anti-bribery regimes in line with existing multilateral obligations, standards, and agreements to curb tax evasion and corruption in the Indo-Pacific region. This involves sharing expertise and seeking ways to support capacity building necessary to advance accountable and transparent systems.
We are continuing to identify additional areas of cooperation based on consultations among partners to further our shared interests, with a view to advancing regional economic connectivity and integration.  We look forward to jointly creating conducive environments to boost flows of commerce, trade, and investments amongst our economies, and to enhancing standards and access to opportunities for our workers, companies, and peoples in our combined markets.
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