TPP Ministerial Negotiations Fail, with No Date Set for the Next Round

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7. I read the entire article

It reinforced some of the things I had previously known from the Japanese side, like that Abe was not pushing very hard for the TPP. Not surprising, since much of Abe's party's support comes from rural/farming areas, which would be among the first to feel the TPP shaft. Also, a former Japanese minister of agriculture and a current member of the Japanese parliament I met at a TPP event in Tokyo last May were very optimistic that TPP negotiations would get bogged down (although the agricultural minister had predicted that the US House would reject fast tract).