TPP Countries Will Consult Internally On Tobacco Proposals, Official Says

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei -- The United States and Malaysia simultaneously tabled competing proposals at a chief negotiators' meeting during the 19th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks here that aim, with varying degrees, to give countries greater flexibility to put in place tobacco control measures. TPP countries intend to discuss these proposals internally before holding further talks on them, a U.S. trade official said in an Aug. 28 interview with Inside U.S. Trade. They are expected to resume...