Ahead of Abe visit, White House walks back TPP comments; stays mum on 232, bilateral talks

A senior Trump administration official on Friday sought to lower expectations that the U.S. might rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership as President Trump prepares for a meeting next week with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- a leader of the push to implement the TPP-11 without the U.S. While trade will be on the agenda for the meeting, administration officials declined to say whether the two leaders would discuss the possibility of an exemption for Japan from the new U.S. Section...