The new Prime Minister has yet to express an attitude toward joining the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
His latest deal: a venture with the United Kingdom's Trans Pacific Petrochemical to build Indonesia's second olefins plant.
During the past month, the Abe government committed Japan to joining the U.S.-sponsored Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations.
Change could begin with the U.S.-led trade negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The US has pushed for provisions to boost Internet openness in the Trans Pacific Partnership under negotiation in New Zealand.
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Japan should quickly join the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) with the aim of becoming a party to this major free trade agreement.
Scheduled signing by nine parties of TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) Agreement.
One of the most obvious ways Japan can do this is through making the tough decisions that earmark its entry into the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The Presidents also noted the economic opportunities the Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement presents for Chile and the United States and the importance of negotiating a high standard, comprehensive agreement as rapidly as possible.
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President Barack Obama said in Tokyo the U.S. will restart talks to potentially take part in a regional Asia-Pacific free trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Partnership that currently includes Singapore, Brunei, Chile and New Zealand.
Mr Obama has expressed more support lately for completing free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea, the Doha round of world trade talks, and the Trans Pacific Partnership, but that has not translated into results.
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"The United States will also be engaging with the Trans Pacific Partnership countries with the goal of shaping a regional agreement that will have broad-based membership and the high standards worthy of a 21st century trade agreement, " Mr. Obama said.
Of critical importance, and in contrast to both Hatoyama and Kan, Noda has evidenced a willingness to face down dissenters within the DPJ to push for now long-overdue Japanese participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade liberalization talks, and accession to a subsequent agreement.
However, largely absent from the broader narrative is the Trans Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and 10 of its trading partners that will test either candidate as the next round of negotiations is set to take place in December.
U.S. business leaders welcomed the latest move but said they would have liked to see a more definitive statement that the U.S. was joining the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is viewed by some leaders as a stepping stone to a wider Asia-Pacific free-trading bloc in the years ahead.
In Singapore, at the annual meeting of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said the goal toward joining the Trans Pacific Partnership would be achieved in close consultation with U.S. Congress, which is holding up the ratification of a U.S. free trade agreement with South Korea.
Washington's signal it will move ahead for talks on joining the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, along with other prospective members Vietnam, Australia and Peru, are widely viewed as an attempt to show the U.S. is willing to forge closer trade ties with the Asian region, which accounts for half of the global economy.
The President now seems to want both a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA).
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Here in Hawaii, the United States wants to send a clear message: We are a Pacific nation and we are deeply committee to shaping the future security and prosperity of the Trans-Pacific region, the fastest-growing region in the world.
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Syncom 3 orbited above the Pacific Ocean and beamed pictures from the Tokyo Olympics to the US later that year - the first trans-Pacific TV transmission.
In the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, we are negotiating with further build-up of this economic condition.
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Japan long the cornerstone of American security policy in Asia now has a more fraught trans-Pacific relationship.
One channel we have to bolster our innovative sectors is through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
And the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations that you just referred to are a good example.
They will be sent instantaneously on the Internet to wipe out the delay of a trans-Pacific flight.
The visit also provides an opportunity for the two leaders to continue progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Singapore Airlines may also invest in China Airlines in Taiwan, an alliance that would improve its trans-Pacific services.
Rather, Goldman reports, Obama triedto use the summit to promote a U.S.-sponsored "Trans-Pacific Partnership" that would exclude China.
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