Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray pledged Monday that his country will bolster cooperation with Japan to achieve a Pacific Rim free trade pact without the United States, praising Tokyo's leadership in realizing the deal. During a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo, ...
Two groups representing the U.S. meat industry complained about Japan's decision Friday to raise tariffs on frozen beef from the United States and other countries as an emergency response to soaring imports. "We're very disappointed," Craig Uden, president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, said ...
To save his political hide, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should do something arguably no Japanese leader has done in decades: project strength and leadership abroad.
The chief negotiators of the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries agreed Thursday to aim to put the regional free trade deal into force under a new framework, following the withdrawal of the United States. "The TPP was originally signed by 12 members so for the pact ...
The United States formally declared Thursday it wants to renegotiate its free trade agreement with South Korea, as the world's biggest economy seeks to redraw the global commerce system in its favor under President Donald Trump. Trump railed against trade agreements on the campaign trail, ...
Chief negotiators from the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries met Wednesday in the hot-spring resort town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, to discuss how to breathe fresh life into the massive free trade deal after the U.S. withdrew. Kazuyoshi Umemoto, the chair of the meeting, said at ...
Hailed by government officials as sending a message to the world on free trade, domestic producers could see negative impact
Japan, New Zealand and other countries are working to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership without the United States.
Lighthizer may be calling for reduction in the tariff on beef imports from the U.S., reflecting concern that the United States lags behind other major farming nations in exports to Japan.
Japan is considering proposing a low-tariff import quota for European butter and powdered skim milk to strike an economic partnership agreement for free trade with the European Union, Jiji Press learned Tuesday. In the EPA negotiations, the EU has urged Japan to take drastic market-opening ...
A U.S. pork industry leader has expressed strong hopes to see Washington and Tokyo quickly strike a free trade agreement, following the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. "We would be satisfied if we could just get what was ...
A district court has rejected a suit filed by more than 1,000 people aimed at preventing Japan from concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The plaintiffs, including farmers and medical workers, says the free trade pact undermines basic human rights and is unconstitutional. But the Tokyo ...
