Japanese officials have expressed a willingness to negotiate re-entry of the U.S. into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the White House said Tuesday.

“There are discussions and considerations,” newly-appointed National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow told reporters in Palm Beach, Fla., ahead of President Trump’s two-day summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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