CPTPP member countries will discuss the UK’s application to join the trade deal during an online meeting scheduled on Wednesday, according to Nishimura Yasutoshi, Japanese minister in charge of negotiations for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Nishimura said that Japan is working closely with the UK and is carrying out the necessary work to speed up negotiations.

The UK filed a request in February to join CPTPP, which now has 11 member nations including Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, and Vietnam, accounting for more than 13% of the global GDP.

The CPTPP was signed in 2018 in Chile.

Source: VOV5