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The trade minister is set to meet with the USTR and Commerce Secretary Ross later this week.
Canada and Mexico stand to gain the most from the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to a new study on the economic effects of moving forward with the agreement without the U.S.
New Zealand's ambassador to the U.S. last week claimed “clear evidence of convergence” among Trans-Pacific Partnership countries that the deal will move ahead without the U.S., but said their continuing pursuit of the agreement should not be mistaken as an “unfriendly act” targeted at the United States.
The prime ministers of both countries will meet this week to talk about the deal.
“Putting the TPP into effect is also proving to be difficult,” Vice President Jusuf Kalla said.
A look back at what went on in Hanoi.
“I know Australia's talking with Japan and others about moving forward with TPP despite America's withdrawal. I would strongly encourage that.”
Board members and executives from BSA | The Software Alliance met with members of Congress and the administration this week to propose a digital trade agenda for a modernized NAFTA and endorse the continued operation of the U.S.- EU Privacy Shield.
Inside U.S. Trade spoke with the trade minister in Hanoi about TPP and the country's trading relationship with the U.S.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer this week told Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and members of the House Agriculture Committee the Trump administration will prioritize exports of U.S. agriculture products and that “do no harm has got to be our objective” for upcoming NAFTA talks with Mexico and Canada -- a renegotiation process the panel’s chairman, Mike Conaway (R-TX), described as “unsettling” to the ag community.
A Q&A with Kentaro Sonoura, from Hanoi.
“Experts have also mentioned that the U.S. administration's restrictive approach to trade policy could lay the foundations for deeper EU-China economic ties.”
HANOI – Trade officials from Japan, Australia and New Zealand, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ministers meeting here, told Inside U.S. Trade they were not in favor of reopening provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a way to ensure its entry into force without the United States – citing a potential unraveling of the deal and the maintenance of the high standards agreed to when the U.S. was still involved.
An interview with Steven Ciobo from Hanoi, where he met for the first time with the new USTR, Robert Lighthizer.
Inside U.S. Trade talks to Ildefonso Guajardo Villareal about NAFTA, TPP and his first meeting with the new USTR.
HANOI -- U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, at his first public appearance here during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers meeting, said the U.S. defending its own market against unfair trade practices should not be confused with protectionism -- the definition of which, he claims, “is sort of migrating.”
HANOI -- Trade officials from the Trans-Pacific Partnership signatories on Sunday reiterated their commitment to finding a way for the deal to enter into force without the U.S., announcing here on Sunday they have tasked senior officials to assess a path forward ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting in November.
“The view of many countries is we shouldn't start unstitching that agreement.”
Business and industry groups -- urging the administration to “do no harm” in its attempts to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement -- are also laying out initial wish lists for what an updated agreement should contain in response to the administration's notice of its intent to retool the deal this week.