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Leaving TPP a strategic blunder by Trump, ex-U.S. trade rep Michael Froman says
The Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement will cost the U.S. access to markets in the Asia-Pacific and make it easier for China to advance its own vision for the region, said Michael Froman, who served as the U.S. ...
U.S. trade chief hoping for TPP approval despite negative rhetoric
The top U.S. trade official is not losing hope for congressional approval of a sweeping pan-Pacific free trade agreement this year despite strong anti-trade rhetoric in the U.S. presidential campaign that may be influencing reluctant lawmakers. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told reporters in an ...
At a ministerial conference in Nairobi where rich and poor countries were split over trade reform, the World Trade Organization reaches deals on agricultural export subsidies and food aid.
Japan-U.S. trade talks reach ministerial level after 'fast track' push in U.S.
Top Japan and U.S. trade officials plan to meet this weekend, seeking to close gaps over autos and farm trade before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Washington later this month. Economy minister Akira Amari announced plans for the talks with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman ...
U.S. trade chief Michael Froman urged Japan on Thursday to make more concessions in thorny bilateral issues over a 12-country Pacific free trade initiative to break the current deadlock over the plenary negotiations. Froman, the U.S. trade representative, said in a lecture in Washington he ...
Japan, U.S. begin ministerial talks on TPP in bid to resolve pesky differences
Japan and the United States began ministerial talks Tuesday in Washington on a much-awaited bilateral agreement seen as crucial to cementing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The two-day meeting between Akira Amari, minister in charge of the TPP initiative, and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman is taking ...
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman urged Japan on Thursday to ramp up efforts on a Pacific trade pact ahead of planned talks with his Japanese counterpart next week and a new round of negotiations in October. A standoff between the United States and Japan, the ...
Japan and the U.S. aren't expected to announce a broad bilateral accord for a Pacific trade pact when their leaders meet in Tokyo, as they remain far apart over market access for agricultural products and autos.
Japan, U.S. still in TPP stalemate
Japan and the United States are still "in stalemate" over key items holding up the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, Tokyo's TPP minister, Akira Amari, said Thursday during the latest round of ministerial talks. Amari told reporters that he and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will meet ...
Japan, U.S. trade chiefs continue tariff talks for Pacific trade pact
Trade chiefs of Japan and the United States continued to seek progress Thursday in protracted negotiations over tariff exceptions to a Pacific free trade pact. Akira Amari, Japan's minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative, and Michael Froman, U.S. trade representative, discussed a full ...
With U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Tokyo approaching, Japanese and U.S. trade chiefs are set to face off again in Washington as they strive to break a deadlock in talks on a massive free trade zone in the Pacific region. Trade observers say it ...
