Trans-Pacific Partnership

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).

Japan’s legislature is expected to ratify before the end of its session

Under scrutiny: How the deal “will affect American workers and America’s interests in the Indo-Pacific region.”

While the White House plans to impose steep tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, roiling allies across the globe who hope to qualify for exclusions, the 11 members of the new Trans-Pacific Partnership on Thursday signed their modified trade pact, inking a deal that was upended when President Trump withdrew the U.S. from it last January.