Trans-Pacific Partnership

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Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray on Thursday pledged to cooperate to get the deal into force quickly.

An intellectual property chapter in the North American Free Trade Agreement that is similar to what was agreed to in the Trans-Pacific Partnership would fail to garner the votes needed to win congressional approval for NAFTA 2.0, business and industry representatives pushing for stronger IP provisions tell Inside U.S. Trade.

A slew of intellectual property issues stand in the way of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer’s goal of concluding the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement by the end of the month, and stakeholders say the push to quickly wrap up the talks could mean negotiators fall back to language the three parties agreed to in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo says the country is “strengthened before the process of modernization” of NAFTA.

The U.S. and Japan have agreed to “intensify” talks on “free, fair and reciprocal trade deals,” President Trump and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, said on Wednesday.

“There’s trade disputes going on here that stand on their own regarding us and China. We don’t need TPP to do any of that stuff. It might work. It might hypothetically work, but that’s not where we are.”

Ciobo: “I think there’s very little appetite among the TPP11 countries for there to be any meaningful renegotiation or indeed any substantial renegotiation of the TPP11 at all.”

President Trump has directed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and top economic adviser Larry Kudlow to “negotiate U.S. entry” into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE).