Japan’s official entry Tuesday into trade talks with Asian and Pacific countries is already drawing some concerns in the U.S.
After the U.S., Japan is now the second-biggest economy in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a group of countries that is seeking to finish negotiations on a wide-ranging trade deal as early as this year.
But bigger economies can bring along bigger unresolved trade problems, and a coalition of auto makers and a congressman from Michigan complained on Wednesday about U.S. access to the car market in Japan.
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The Wall Street Journal