U.S. companies in Japan want Washington to focus trade talks on services, pharmaceuticals: ACCJ

U.S. companies already established in Japan want the Trump administration to focus more on service-sector trade than on market access for manufacturers, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

ACCJ President Sachin N. Shah, who is also the head of Metlife Inc.'s Japanese subsidiary, said that's the message he and a team of eight CEOs of U.S. companies in Japan recently took to Washington ahead of upcoming bilateral talks between the two nations.

While Shah said in an interview in late May in Tokyo that U.S. firms in Japan welcomed a "more active, healthy and ongoing" economic dialogue between the two nations, he said there was a lot of focus among officials they met in the U.S. on market access.