Japan’s Abe to Make Trade Case to Trump in New York Meeting
- In talks Thursday, Abe set to be first leader to meet Trump
- Abe says ‘extremely difficult’ for TPP to come into effect
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make the case for free trade and seek to build trust with Donald Trump when he meets the U.S. President-elect later this week in New York.
During his election campaign, Trump vowed to drop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade pact that covers 12 countries that make up 40 percent of the global economy, saying its enactment would be "catastrophic." The pact is currently under discussion in Japan’s parliament, with Abe’s government hoping to ratify it in the current session that ends this month.