Senior official level meetings by chief negotiators opened in Sydney, Australia, 11 countries participating in agreements except for the United States, who left the TPP, ended on the 30 th. Participating countries are aiming for a broad agreement at the summit meeting of the APEC = Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Congress to be held in Vietnam in November.

At the meeting, as the United States withdraws, such as the protection period of the development data of medicines that was incorporated in line with the American assertion, now each country discusses the items that wish to freeze, and will narrow down the items to be frozen in the future I decided to hold a meeting in Japan in the second half of next month. Eleven countries will freeze the items agreed by all the countries, and will release the freeze if the US returns to TPP.

After the meeting, Japan 's chief negotiator Umemoto said, "The challenge for the future is to find the necessary minimum freezing items that everyone can agree, by doing the next meeting in Japan However, I think that it will be more effective to manage the proceedings in order to get close to the objective, "he said, aiming for a broad agreement in November, and showed his thought of leading the discussion.