Canada hold out still looms over implementation of TPP

Japan managed to pull off in 2017 an agreement with 10 other Trans-Pacific Partnership countries to resurrect the free trade pact following the pullout of the United States, the biggest economy in the framework.But Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hopes of signing an 11-strong Pacific Rim trade pact at an early date still seems shaky following Canada's last minute request for a revision of the treaty.Given the uncommitted attitude by Canada toward a fast implementation of the TPP in its current form, Japan and the nine other members could go on now without Canada, analysts said.The new …READ FULL ARTICLE