The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a crucial foundation, especially for Vietnam and the United States to promote their cooperation, said Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Monday.
Akira Amari, Japan's minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade negotiations of Japan, brushed aside on Sunday the possibility of making further concessions to the United States on sensitive issues.
However, the apparent flip-flop has opened up the LDP for attack from a number of fronts. Firstly, Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives, which has significant political clout here, will be up in arms about the turnaround.
APEC host Indonesia has reiterated its unwillingness to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement being negotiated, but conceded that the country will closely observe steps taken by China, an official said here on Monday.
Vital decisions on the global political and economic landscape were taken on Monday as the APEC leaders met here and corporate stakeholders to assess the way forward.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Sunday that the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement might not be able to be completed by the year-end deadline.
Although a lot of regional economic cooperation like TPP and RCEP was created, the scholar said Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) still has a niche of its own in trade facilitation as a process that brings together both the political leaders and the private sectors, and both the United States and China.
Japan and the United States on Monday kicked off their second round of bilateral trade talks on auto and trade barriers in parallel with the U.S.-led Trans- Pacific Partnership free trade talks, reported local media.
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser will be exploring opportunities for trade with Japan under the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in talks in Japan this week.
Officials from participating countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) gathered in the Malaysian city of Kota Kinabalu on Monday for the 18th round of negotiations, as they rush to the deadline set by their leaders to wrap up the free trade agreement by the end of the year.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday that Japan intends to join in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade liberalization talks.