The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative appears interested in pressing other countries participating in talks to establish a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to create central, coordinating bodies for regulatory processes within their respective governments as one way to advance the cause of "regulatory coherence," sources said. In particular, USTR is putting forward the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) as a model for the type of central coordinating body that TPP countries could adopt, sources said. U.S...
