Japan hosts three-day meeting to advance TPP-11 trade pact
The US is sidelined as Japan makes deal with EU and pushes agenda for biggest Asia-Pacific free-trade agreement.
Nevil Gibson Wed, 12 Jul 2017
Formerly protectionist Japan is on a free-trade high as it hosts a three-day meeting of officials in the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the mountain resort town of Hakone, west of Tokyo.
The meeting of all 11 TPP member nations except the US follows a breakthrough last week on a Japan-European
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