The Japanese leader and the Mexican president agreed to work together to get the TPP signed as soon as possible
MEXICO CITY – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wrapped up his visit on Sunday to Mexico, where he and President Enrique Peña Nieto agreed to complete the negotiations for the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade saw Abe off at the Mexico City international airport.
Abe, Peña Nieto and their wives, Akie Abe and Angelica Rivera, visited the Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone on Saturday.
The Japanese leader and the Mexican president agreed on Friday to work together to get the TPP signed as soon as possible.
The TPP negotiations involving Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam have hit a snag due, in large part, to the Japanese government’s desire to maintain barriers to farm imports.
The two leaders presided over the signing of 14 cooperation agreements in the oil, education, health and agricultural sectors, and the areas of environmental protection and renewable-energy promotion.
Abe and Peña Nieto also agreed to promote Japanese cooperation with the Pacific Alliance, an organization that counts Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru among its members.
Both leaders pledged to continue to review the bilateral Economic Association Agreement that Mexico and Japan signed a decade ago.
Japan is Mexico’s fourth-largest trade partner overall and second-biggest in Asia after China. More than 800 Japanese companies have set up operations in Mexico, with 20 percent of them arriving in the past two years.
Mexico is Abe’s first stop on a tour of Latin America that will also take him to Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Chile and Brazil.
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