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Pork producers eager for Japan to join Pacific trade talks
Story Date: 3/18/2013
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Source: MEATINGPLACE, 3/15/13
The National Pork Producers Council is urging the United States and other nations to swiftly accept Japan into Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday announced his country’s intention to participate in the regional trade talks.
Japan is the top value export market for U.S. pork, generating almost $2 billion in 2012 sales.
The partnership, whose goal is to establish standards for trade across the Asia-Pacific region, includes the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. The countries account for a combined 30 percent of global gross domestic product.
“Japan’s entry into the negotiations will spur interest in the TPP among other countries in Asia and Latin America, and it will signal to other nations that efforts to negotiate more open and transparent trading arrangements will continue, even as multilateral efforts to do so are stymied,” NPPC President Randy Spronk, a pork producer from Edgerton, Minn., said in a statement.
Japan already has free trade agreements with seven of the 11 partnership countries: Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
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