TOKYO -- Australia has secured its place as the top beef exporter to Japan, but with Tokyo hashing out a bilateral trade deal with the U.S., another beef powerhouse, Canberra is refusing to renegotiate the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for fear that its cattlemen could lose out.
"Australia is not seeking to renegotiate the mechanisms within the [Trans-Pacific Partnership] around beef or any other products," Bridget McKenzie, Australia's agriculture minister, told Nikkei Monday in Tokyo.
