Negotiators discuss TPP implementation without US
(VOVWORLD) - Chief negotiators from the 11 remaining signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement started three-day talks near Tokyo on Monday to seek an agreement on the implementation of the pact without the US.
A round of TPP negotiation without the US in Tokyo in September, 2017. (Source: the Japan Times/ VNA)
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They gathered in Chiba prefecture, seeking to make progress on reaching a consensus on which clauses to suspend implementing until the US returns to the deal. A Japanese negotiation source said there have been requests to freeze implementation of 50 clauses, centering on those introduced at the request of the US.
The TPP was signed in February last year by Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US and Vietnam, covering around 40 percent of the global economy before the US’s withdrawal earlier this year.