<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 40pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT,Bold', serif;">Washington Trade Daily<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Volume 24, Numbers 179 and 180 Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9, 2015<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Trade Reports International Group<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'ArialMT,BoldItalic', sans-serif;">Around the Globe<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">The United States has sounded out some of the other countries involved in Pacific Rim<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">free trade negotiations about holding the next ministerial gathering in late September on the margins of a<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, negotiation sources said Tuesday<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">according to Kyodo news service (WTD, 9/8/15). </span><span style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Separately, Japan and the United States will resume</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">bilateral talks on auto trade issues under the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade initiative in<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">Washington from Wednesday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">The moves follow a ministerial meeting of all 12 TPP countries in Hawaii in late July at which<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">they failed to secure a broad agreement. During the negotiations in Washington through Friday, Japan<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">is also expected to hold working-level talks with Canada and Mexico as well. There could also be<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">multilateral sessions among the four countries, according to a Foreign Ministry official.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">Akira Amari, Japan’s minister in charge of TPP negotiations, has expressed hope that the next<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">ministerial meeting will be held by the end of September, saying the TPP talks may be halted if a deal<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">cannot be reached before a general election in Canada slated for October. Despite the United States and<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">Japan seeking a fresh ministerial session this month, some trade observers say such a meeting is unlikely<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">to occur before a summit meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in November in the<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">Philippines, where TPP trade chiefs will also gather.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">Trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries — Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam — last met on the<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">Hawaiian island of Maui for four days through July 31, but they failed to reach an agreement due to<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: CalistoMT, serif;">differences over auto trade, intellectual property and the liberalization of dairy products.</span></div></body></html>