Japan's Aso: Japan must avoid entering FTA with the US

Japanese Finance Minister Aso says the nation should resist entering a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US to rectify the trade imbalances and believes the issue hould be tackled by global trade partners as a whole and via bilateral agreements. 

"We want to avoid falling into a bilateral deal" with the United States in exchange for exemptions from steel and aluminum tariffs, Aso said, according to a Reuters report.