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Obama Pushes For Flexibility On Key Issues In Calls With TPP Leaders

September 28, 2015 at 12:49 PM
ATLANTA -- Ahead of a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial meeting here later this week, President Obama has begun calling TPP leaders to press them for flexibility on specific outstanding issues in the negotiations, including the term of market exclusivity for biologics medicines, according to informed sources. Obama pressed Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on the biologics issue during a phone call Sunday (Sept. 27), sources said. Chile has generally taken the position in the TPP negotiations that it does not want...

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