Japan says TPP members aiming for good results next week
2017-11-02 09:11:21 source：Asahi Shimbun
November 1, 2017
Chief negotiators from the 11 nations left in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are aiming to have positive results at a ministerial-level meeting next week, a Japanese government official said on Tuesday.
Japan and 10 other nations have been exploring ways to save the trade pact after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the grouping in January to prioritize protecting U.S. jobs.
The negotiators are gathered in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, for three days of talks that started on Monday to narrow down the terms of the original deal to suspend in order to salvage the pact.
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