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Froman: U.S.-Japan Deal Not Needed To Advance Canada Ag, Rules Issues

July 2, 2015 at 5:16 PM
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on Wednesday (July 1) made clear he does not view the lack of a bilateral market access deal with Japan as an obstacle to making progress on the other outstanding issues in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, which he identified as those relating to agricultural market access with Canada, intellectual property (IP), investment and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). “I think we've made good progress with Japan over the last year and a half,” he said at...

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