TPP ministers see no year-end deal but agree to speed up talks

TPP ministers see no year-end deal but agree to speed up talks

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Nov. 8, 2014, shows the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where trade ministers from 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations met the same day. According to Akira Amari, Japan's minister in charge of TPP talks, the ministers failed to clear a path for concluding a deal by the end of the year as proposed by the United States, but they agreed to accelerate their talks as much as possible.

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