WASHINGTON—Top U.S. trade and commerce officials are meeting this week with their counterparts in Japan, South Korea and India—but not China—as the Biden administration seeks to build stronger economic ties with friendly nations in Asia.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo have a series of meetings to discuss issues from supply-chain resilience to the digital economy to pandemic response.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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