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This week: Big stories on TPP (as always), but also APEC and the travel-goods fight: APEC trade map: bumps in the road . The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s goal of eliminating all trade restrictions on trade in services by 2025 has met resistance from some member countries. They prefer a less ambitious liberalization program, Deputy Assistant USTR for APEC Affairs Ken Schagrin said this week. He didn’t name names, but said a number of countries prefer a “gradual and flexible approach...