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USTR Adds Azevedo Meeting, Japan TPP Talks to This Week's Schedule

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will meet with World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevêdo on Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C., the Office of the USTR said. The U.S., WTO leadership and many WTO members are continuing to push for a…

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compromise that will resolve the Trade Facilitation Agreement impasse. The same day Acting Deputy USTR Wendy Cutler will travel to Japan to meet with Japanese trade officials on Trans-Pacific Partnership market access and auto negotiations. USTR Chief Agricultural Negotiator Darci Vetter will later join Cutler. The U.S. and Japan have battled for the better part of 2014 over Japanese agricultural market access in TPP (see 14100601).