Japan Times - Japan and the United States have agreed that 12 countries discussing a Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal should hold a ministerial meeting in the first half of March to reach a broad agreement, informed sources said on Friday.
Officials from Japan and the United States, which ended their latest bilateral TPP meeting in Tokyo on Friday, also confirmed how the two sides should proceed with bilateral talks which are crucial to the success of the broader negotiations, the sources said.
Chief negotiators from the 12 countries are scheduled to meet in New York later this month, the sources said.
Japan and the United States will hold bilateral working-level talks in Washington soon after the New York session, and TPP Minister Akira Amari and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will meet in February, the sources said.
Japanese and U.S. officials signaled that the two sides narrowed gaps over auto trade, during the latest Tokyo session. Deputy chief TPP negotiator Hiroshi Oe said he strongly feels that the United States is serious about concluding talks successfully.
But Japan and the United States remain apart over farm trade. Elsewhere in the broader TPP talks, the United States and emerging market economies such as Malaysia are in dispute over intellectual property protection.
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You win Risk by taking Russia, the big prize since Napoleon. Although JFK tried being an ally, he was stopped in Dallas, his brother who had met with Dobrynin, was stopped in LA, peacemaker MLK in Memphis. Brzezinski plans on dividing Russia into three sections, the game lost from Napoleon to Hitler, now the US ambition to unite the world under a thousand year reich, the UN being now dismantled as reported by Syrian ambassador al-Jafaari.
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