Advancing the U.S. Trade Agenda: Benefits of Expanding U.S. Agriculture Trade and Eliminating Barriers to U.S. Exports
1100 Longworth House Office Building at 10:00 A.M.
On April 12, the United States announced that it was prepared to include Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership currently being negotiated by 11 nations -- the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Australia and New Zealand. Before beginning formal negotiations, the Administration must notify Congress of its intent to include Japan in the talks, triggering a 90-day consulation period with Congress.
Ranking Member Levin has stressed that It is vital that Congress and the Obama Administration take this opportunity to engage in frank discussions with Japan over a number of serious concerns that must be addressed because of the country’s longstanding history of closing its huge markets to a wide variety of U.S. goods and services, with harmful consequences to American businesses and workers.
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