Today, Secretary Gina M. Raimondo spoke with the Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism, and Investment Dan Tehan to further discuss the development of President Biden’s Indo-Pacific economic framework. Secretary Raimondo and Minister Tehan also shared updates with each other on progress made to relaunch the U.S.-Australia Critical Minerals Working Group, which they jointly announced after their Nov. 17 meeting in Singapore during the Secretary’s trip to the Indo-Pacific region. The Secretary expressed her support for the close and continuing engagement between the Department of Commerce and Australia’s Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Investment and interest in continuing to explore opportunities for increased commercial cooperation.