Agriculture Groups Say They Support Japan's Entry in TPP
A coalition of 75 different food and agriculture groups urged President Barack Obama and other members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to allow the entry of Japan as soon as possible, calling the country’s status as America’s fourth-largest agricultural export market.…
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Adding Japan to the negotiations -- tentatively scheduled to finish in October -- will “exponentially increase the importance of the [Trans-Pacific Partnership] to U.S. farmers and ranchers, processors and exporters as well as other sectors of the U.S. economy,” said the March 26 letter from the groups. Japan’s entry will also spur interest in the TPP among other countries in Asia and Latin America, and “send a strong signal to other nations that efforts to negotiate more open and transparent regional trading arrangements will continue, even as multilateral efforts to do so are stymied.”