Japan’s Economic Revitalization Minister says all the 11 signatory nations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal have reconfirmed their broad agreement to put the deal into effect without the United States.
Japan’s Economic Revitalization Minister says all the 11 signatory nations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal have reconfirmed their broad agreement to put the deal into effect without the United States.
Toshimitsu Motegi is among ministers from 11 countries that in principle reached the agreement at a meeting in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang on Thursday. The agreement was to be confirmed at the summit meeting scheduled for Friday, but was postponed. That came as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in a meeting before the planned summit that member countries were not ready to confirm the agreement.
