Susan Sell is a professor of political science at George Washington University, who has carried out landmark research on international negotiations over intellectual property.

All other countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations except the United States are urging Japan to abolish tariffs on all products, including rice, sources said Friday.

There was a sharp division of opinions over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at the first hearing, organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and held at the COEX Convention Center in Seoul on November 15.

At their talks in Hanoi on Thursday, Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung and US Secretary of Treasury Jacob J. Lew discussed financial services, as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.

China wasn’t happy when it was excluded from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but now that negotiations for the trade agreement led by the United States are set to conclude by year-end, China may be forced to make reforms in response to the potentially polarizing alliance, regardless of whether it plans to join the TPP.

KEI Comments on the August 30, 2013 version of the TPP IP Chapter

TOKYO, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Japan and the United States on Tuesday confirmed their cooperation toward concluding the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade negotiations by the end of this year, according to local media. After a meeting with visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said that they confirmed that the two countries will work together to finish the free trade talks by yearend, reported Japan's Kyodo News.

Trans-Pacific Partnership partner countries, including the United States, will be hosting a series of meetings in coming weeks on various aspects of the ongoing negotiations: October 28-November 1          

The countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks made little progress on intellectual property rights at an interim meeting Monday because of lingering disputes between the United States and emerging economies.

TOKYO, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Japan hosted Thursday a working group meeting of the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks, marking the first one that was held in the latest TPP member.