Officials from Japan and the United States have agreed to speed up negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement, including through a ministerial meeting slated for early August, a senior Japanese official said Friday."The leaders of Japan and the United States agreed in their summits in May and June to achieve early results. We are vigorously negotiating toward that goal," senior trade official Kazuhisa Shibuya told reporters after a three-day meeting in Washington.Based on the working-level talks, Japanese economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi and U.S. Trade Representative Rob…READ FULL ARTICLE
