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TPA Passage Shifts Focus To TPP, But Some Skeptical Of Quick Conclusion

June 25, 2015 at 8:22 PM
The approval by the U.S. Congress this week of fast-track legislation shifts the focus of the U.S. trade agenda to completing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, but some government officials and industry sources are raising doubts that the talks can be wrapped up as quickly as some have hoped due to the extent and complexity of outstanding issues. TPP countries as of Thursday morning (June 25) had not formally scheduled a long-awaited ministerial where they will seek to close a...

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