Japanese ambassador 'not giving up' on TPP, offers business tips to MSU marketing students
BRANSON MO NEWS: Buy PhotoKenichiro Sasae, Japanese ambassador to the United States, speaks to a business class in Glass Hall at Missouri State University on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. Sasae was touring Southwest Missouri with Congressman Billy Long.(Photo: Nathan Papes/News-Leader)Buy PhotoAfter advising marketing students at Missouri State on how to build stronger business relationships, Japanese Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae expressed optimism for the passage of the Trans Pacific Partnership.Sasae and his wife are being shown around Springfield by Republican U.S. Rep. Billy Long. Their tour of the Show-Me state’s southwest corner includes trips to College of the Ozarks near Branson and Missouri Southern State University in Joplin.”I’m not giving up,” Sasae said to reporters after his presentation. “I’m still hopeful. I trust the final good judgment of U.S. Congress and (the) American people.”The TPP, which includes a dozen countries (and does not include China), would get rid of tariffs in hopes of boosting trade. The deal has been agreed to but not ratified.President Barack Obama has supported the TPP, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has vehemently opposed it, and Democrat Hillary Clinton, once a supporter, has flipped her stance and now opposes the international trade deal. …
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