TPP Ministerial In Guam Called Off, But Negotiating Round Is Extended
TAMUNING, Guam -- Tentative plans to hold a meeting of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministers here on May 26-28 have been definitively called off, but an informal TPP negotiating round currently taking place here is now expected to last several days longer than planned. Akira Amari, Japan's minister for TPP, told reporters in Tokyo on Friday (May 22) that the TPP ministerial has been postponed -- a development that many private-sector sources had expected in light of the fact that Trade...