Japanese government is considering the possibility of seeking for enforcement of an 11-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pack without the United States.
Officials of Shinzo Abe’s administration planned to persistently keep its policy to put the 12-country TPP into practice, saying “The TPP pack without the U.S. will be useless.”
The government of Japan, however, has found it considerably difficult to urge President Donald Trump’s administration to come back to TPP instead of promoting its own bilateral trade deals.
Therefore, the Japanese government will make efforts to precede the enforcement of the 11-country TPP agreement for the time being, hoping those efforts will press the U.S. to be impatient at being out of TPP and return to its agreement in a foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, it will be also a big challenge for eleven member countries of the TPP to move forward the TPP free trade deal without the U.S.
The U.S. participation in the TPP deal is an essential condition for its enforcement, making it necessary for governments of the eleven TPP members to respectively carry out domestic proceedings for ratification of a new 11-country TPP pact.
It is deeply concerned that the TPP pact without the U.S. will bring about a collapse of interests among member countries, forcing them to reopen the negotiations themselves.