ATLANTA: Trade officials from 12 Pacific rim countries have extended to Friday negotiations aimed at creating the world’s largest free trade zone.

With some of the final differences still not ironed out, a spokesman for the US Trade Representative said a planned press conference Thursday evening was cancelled and “negotiations will continue tomorrow.”

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