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Trans-Pacific Partnership

Lighthizer to hold NAFTA talks with Congress, attend APEC trade ministers meeting in his first week
(Daily News)
May 14, 2017

Robert Lighthizer, slated to be sworn in as U.S. Trade Representative on Monday afternoon, will have a busy first week in office, meeting with congressional committees of jurisdiction to discuss the administration’s negotiating objectives for NAFTA and traveling to the two-day APEC trade ministers meeting in Vietnam, sources told Inside U.S. Trade.
New Zealand becomes second country to ratify TPP
(In Trade)
May 11, 2017
New Zealand asked to co-chair TPP11 meeting during APEC
(In Trade)
May 10, 2017

Trade Minister Todd McClay: “We have agreed to continue to evaluate options under TPP that would deliver benefits for our citizens and the region.”
Report: Japan eyeing a TPP-like deal involving as few as five countries
(In Trade)
May 04, 2017

Tokyo eyes Australia, New Zealand as key partners in a smaller agreement.
Japanese Diet members noncommittal on bilateral with U.S., tout multilateral framework
(Daily News)
May 03, 2017

Members of Japan’s National Diet, speaking in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, stressed that Tokyo will not be able to make the same concessions it did in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks if the U.S. seeks a bilateral agreement with Japan instead -- and said detailed discussions on trade can’t happen until relevant U.S. agencies are adequately staffed.
Japan’s ambassador signals reservations about bilateral deal with U.S.
(Daily News)
May 02, 2017

Japan is not ready to jump into bilateral negotiations on a trade deal with the United States because it remains unclear what the U.S. would want from such a deal and how it would impact trade relationships with the rest of the region, Japan’s ambassador to the United States Kenichiro Sasae said Tuesday.
TPP-11 trade officials to meet in Toronto this week, explore ‘potential next steps’
(Daily News)
May 02, 2017

Senior trade officials from the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries are gathering for meetings in Toronto this week to discuss “potential next steps” for the agreement ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers’ summit in Vietnam later this month.
Despite being sidelined, TPP and TTIP still get a lot of attention
(In Trade)
May 01, 2017

Signs of life for TTIP; post-TPP future still unclear.
Japan says it will push for TPP without the U.S.; Australia, Canada suggest UK could join
(In Trade)
April 27, 2017

Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso thinks a Pacific deal “could be reached quickly.”
McCain slams TPP withdrawal, again, as a strategic blunder
(In Trade)
April 26, 2017

“The business of Asia is business. We can’t cede to China the setting of the rules.”
Australian PM says U.S. had ‘right’ to pull out of TPP; Pence promotes ‘America first,’ bilaterals
(Daily News)
April 22, 2017

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, standing alongside Vice President Mike Pence, said Saturday that the U.S. had the right to end its participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and that “each nation is committed to protecting its economic interests first and foremost,” while Pence reiterated the U.S. “America-first” policy and the administration’s preference for bilateral trade deals.
Japan's Aso: 'No guarantee' U.S. would get better conditions in bilateral than it did in TPP
(Daily News)
April 21, 2017

Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso this week offered “no guarantee” the United States will strike a better deal with Tokyo if it chooses to pursue a bilateral trade agreement, stressing that U.S. gains with Japan in the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership depended on other countries “balancing out the gains and losses.”
In May, ECJ to deliver verdict on member state competencies for trade deals
(In Trade)
April 19, 2017

The decision is expected to set an EU-wide precedent for whether other trade agreements, including TTIP, will need member state approval.
Pence says 'Economic Dialogue' may lead to Japan FTA negotiations
(Daily News)
April 18, 2017

The U.S.-Japan Economic Dialogue may produce work that eventually leads to the negotiation of a bilateral free trade deal between the two countries, Vice President Mike Pence said in Tokyo today alongside Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso following the first meeting of the economic dialogue.
Sen. Moran urges administration to move more aggressively on trade
(In Trade)
April 12, 2017

“President Trump talks about America first, but in our case, America first means that we're selling wheat and cattle and corn around the globe.”
Canadian parliament panel recommends deals with TPP countries, resumption of Japan talks
(In Trade)
April 11, 2017

“These agreements should be pursued on a priority basis.”
Former TPP negotiator Quinn pushed from NEC back to USTR
(In Trade)
April 06, 2017

In recent weeks he has come under fire from opponents of the Asia-Pacific deal.
Industry, trade analysts: TPP digital trade provisions must quickly be secured in other deals
(Daily News)
April 06, 2017

Industry officials, trade analysts and a key Obama administration digital trade negotiator on Thursday warned that the U.S. must quickly work with trading partners to secure digital trade rules in trade agreements that are at least as ambitious as those agreed to in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Congressional Research Service report on TPP's 'implications for U.S. trade relations with Mexico'
(File Document)
April 05, 2017
Outside views: Pacific trade 'alive and kicking'
(In Trade)
April 04, 2017

Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Heraldo Muñoz writes in the New York Times that last month's Viña del Mar meeting “has set us on our way.”

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