<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=""><h3 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Inside US Trade</font></h3><h3 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;" class="">TPP Text Work In Japan To Continue Through The End Of October</span></h3><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></h1><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Posted: October 16, 2015 <o:p class=""></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">A meeting of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) officials in Japan that sources say involves drafting portions of the text and continuing the legal scrub is kicking off during the week of Oct. 14 and will last through the end of the month, according to the Peruvian government.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Peru's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism is sending five officials to Tokyo from Oct. 17 through at least Oct. 30 to participate in the meeting, the ministry said in a resolution published in the Oct. 16 edition of <em class="">El Peruano</em>, the official newspaper.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The resolution said the purpose of the meeting is to “legally revise and give coherence to the [TPP] texts that will be published and signed."<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Among the chapters that will be undergoing legal scrub in Tokyo are those dealing with services, investment, market access, rules of origin, textiles, intellectual property, trade remedies, and legal and institutional issues, according to the resolution.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">One informed source said <a href="http://insidetrade.com/node/150517" style="color: purple;" class="">the work in Tokyo</a> includes drafting one or two side letters to the agreement, as well as technical work on the tariff schedules.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The meeting comes as the Obama administration is facing pressure from trading partners such as Canada, as well as members of Congress and stakeholders, to release the TPP text as soon as possible.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>