Australian Officials Raise Hopes For Common TPP Tariff Concessions

CANBERRA -- Ahead of the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks here, Australian trade officials drove home the point to domestic business representatives that the final deal will be truly plurilateral in terms of market access, raising hopes among industry groups that Japan will extend the same tariff concessions it grants to the United States to all other TPP countries. Officials from Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) delivered that message in a closed-door briefing last week...