Tokyo Aims To Submit Pork Subsidies Bill Along With TPP Before June

摘要

Japan's government is currently planning to submit legislation that would expand subsidies to domestic hog farmers along with a bill to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) sometime during the current session of the Diet, which ends in June, according to a Tokyo source. It is not clear whether the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seeking approval of these two bills prior to the end of the Diet session. U.S. officials have said some TPP countries plan to proceed with their ratification efforts as soon as possible, while others want to hold off until the U.S. Congress approves the agreement.