Japan will contribute to early TPP trade deal: PM Abe

TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters): Japan will make efforts to break a deadlock in a proposed Asia-Pacific regional trade deal ahead of a key weekend meeting of trade ministers, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday.
Saturday's meeting in Beijing "will be important for an early conclusion" of the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, Abe told a meeting of Japanese cabinet ministers on the subject. "Japan will actively contribute to an early conclusion," he said.
The 12-nation talks have snagged as Japan and the United States, by far the biggest economies in the group, are deadlocked in bilateral talks, chiefly over access to Japan's agricultural market.