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Chair’s Statement of the 30th APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting

San Francisco, The United States | 14 November 2023

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All APEC ministers responsible for small and medium enterprises agreed to all paragraphs except for paragraph 4

  1. We, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers responsible for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), met in Seattle, Washington, the United States of America on August 21, 2023, chaired by Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Marisa Lago. We welcomed the participation of the APEC Business Advisory Council. We express our collective appreciation to the City of Seattle for the warm welcome extended for this meeting.

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[1] Paragraph 4 of this document, taken from the APEC Bangkok Leaders’ Declaration from November 19, 2022, was agreed to by all member economies except the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation.