Posted on 07/11/2016 9:29:43 AM PDT by orchestra
Japan does not plan to rework the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal despite U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s suggestion Tuesday that she may try to renegotiate it, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda said on Wednesday.
“We are not going to accept any request from the United States, even if it asks us to renegotiate over the TPP,” he told reporters.
Hagyuda said renegotiating even part of the accord that was agreed in February would harm it.
“I hope all member countries, including the U.S., will carry out domestic procedures with responsibility,” he said.
He called for early approval by Congress.
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LOL!
Neither the TPP or NAFTA, or any other trade agreement for that matter, will be renegotiated. Clinton or Trump will have to live with them, with all their flaws, or drop them completely and deal with all the uncertainty that involves.
Oh, so she is admitting it is a bad deal and needs to be renegotiated?
Nice...
So Trump was right?
And since Japan just said they are NOT going to negotiate with HilLIARy, I guess she’ll just take the bad deal then, right?
Or cancel it? - wait, isn’t that what Trump said we needed to do?
Never send a drunk to do a job which requires the art of the deal.
You don’t really negotiate much, do you...
Wonder if this is going to descend back into a “You die Joe!” - “Tojo eats s#!+!” jungle exchange of views, like in the good old days.
Japan still pizzed off that a ‘holy’ black US Military member raped and murdered one of their young women. And Scrooge Hellary—
Neither has Trump. Not at this level.
Japan has had several decades worth of bilateral trade agreements with the United States. They might actually appreciate having another such deal which doesn’t treat them any better than China or Vietnam.
Don’t worry Japan, Hillary is just lying to get the Bernouts in line.
They'll be asking "What does it take"?
They know who controls Hillary. Trump is outside their control.
Do you think those currently in washington know better?
Probably more than Trump.
He claims he is going to renegotiate NAFTA to make it so much better for American workers that we won't believe it. Well the only way he is going to do that is to make it so much worse for Mexican and Canadian workers. What country would agree to that?
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