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Asia-Pacific trade talks to tackle most difficult issues, aiming for substantial conclusion: U.S. expert
The United States and 11 other countries in the Asia Pacific region are expected to tackle the most difficult outstanding issues for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and substantially conclude the controversial trade talks this week, a leading U.S. trade expert said. "I think the TPP ministers are going to Hawaii with the hope that they can finish or substantially complete the negotiations," Jeffrey Schott, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), told Xinhua in an interview, referring to the upcoming TPP trade ministers' meetings set to kick off here Tuesday. ... (full story)