Topic: Update on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations

(Reuters) - Washington wants progress on an investment treaty with Beijing before it considers expanding an eventual Pacific-region trade pact to include China, a top U.S. official said on Thursday.

We, the Ministers and Heads of Delegation for Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam, have just completed a four-day Ministerial meeting in Singapore where we have made substantial progress toward completing the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Over the course of this meeting, we identified potential “landing zones” for the majority of key outstanding issues in the text. We will continue to work with flexibility to finalize these text issues as well as market access issues.

The draft of environment chapter of the TPP negotiations has been leaked by Wikileaks on January 15.

Another leak of documents from inside the secret US-Pacific trade negotiations indicates continued conflict between the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership nations.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States held high-level talks here Monday on Seoul's interest in potentially joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a U.S.-led multilateral trade agreement, officials said.

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TOKYO —The Japanese government is hoping that Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade negotiations will conclude with an agreement in February.

Malaysia has ruled out any American “pressure” in the negotiating process in the much controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as all economies are pressuring each other to agree on certain clauses according to respective law and norms.

FOR the first time since it came into existence in 1995, the World Trade Organisation last month achieved a breakthrough, reaching a series of agreements to streamline trade that are expected to boost the world economy by up to a US$1 trillion (RM3.28 trillion) a year.