Japanese Official Holds Door Open To TPP Fixes Without Renegotiation

A Japanese embassy official last week held open the possibility that Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries could find some creative way to address objections by U.S. lawmakers to certain provisions of the agreement in a way that does not change the text itself, although he ruled out a full-fledged renegotiation of the deal. "I think renegotiation or sort of similar activities or undertakings on TPP is just like opening a Pandora's box," Kanji Yamanouchi, economic minister at the Embassy of Japan,...