(EPA photo)HANOI -- New Zealand’s top trade official said his country wouldn’t gain much from major changes to a Pacific trade pact, highlighting obstacles to finalizing the deal without the US after Malaysia called for more negotiations. TPP ministers met on the side-lines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Hanoi on Sunday. Economic BenefitsStill, Mr McClay saw progress at the Hanoi meeting. "No agreement other than TPP goes so far into digital trade, intellectual property and improving customs procedures,” Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko said on Sunday in an interview in Hanoi. “Each country has its own thinking and there are various options to launch the TPP 11,” he said.

Source: Bangkok Post May 22, 2017 03:45 UTC