TPP = Agreement participating countries excluding the United States who withdrew from the Pacific Rim Pacific Partnership Agreement opened a high-level office level meeting by chief negotiators, etc., in hotels in Tokyo for 2 days until 22nd It was.

Eleven countries are planning to freeze some of the items included in accordance with the withdrawal of the US assertion, and at the meeting, there were requests from each country such as items related to intellectual property and trade rules, About 50 items were discussed.

As a result, in order to narrow down the items to be frozen with the aim of reaching a broad agreement at the summit meeting of the APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Congress in November this month, the next high-level administrative level meeting We agreed to open.

Chief negotiator Umemoto, the chief negotiator of the TPP, etc., who served as chairman, told reporters, "We strive to minimize the items to be frozen and make the agreement that has maintained a high standard as soon as possible The discussion is going forward along that line, there was a meaningful progress towards APEC. "