WASHINGTON, D.C.: Ministers from 12 Pacific nations have set a date this month for what is hoped will be final talks to clinch a vast Pacific free-trade deal covering 40 percent of world trade, US officials said on Thursday (Friday in Manila).

“The United States will host a meeting of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Ministers in Atlanta, Georgia from September 30 to October 1,” the US Trade Representative’s office said.

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