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By MOTOKO RICH at the NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/business/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-japan-china-globalization.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=1
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TOKYO When President Trump pulled out of his predecessors signature trade deal on his first full weekday in office, the 11 other countries that had negotiated the pact were left wondering if years of work had just gone down the drain.
This week, those countries indicated that they wanted to press ahead with the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a sweeping multinational trade agreement that had originally been sold as a way to tether the United States more closely to East Asia and to create an economic bloc capable of standing against an increasingly muscular China.
At a meeting in Hakone, a resort town south of Tokyo, Japan led trade negotiators from the 11 countries including Australia, Canada, Malaysia and Vietnam in discussions about reviving rules that would improve labor conditions and increase protections for intellectual property in some countries, while opening more markets to free trade in agricultural products and digital services around the region.
Japans effort to salvage the deal reflects a growing recognition that countries that have previously counted on American leadership will have to forge ahead on their own.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)you know, since he still is hands on with all business deals and there is no blind trust, he will sign that puppy so fast you cant believe it.
Unless it never comes up again...not sure on that part.
Jimbo101
(776 posts)to have "Fast Track" trade authority to negotiate this deal.
TPP was / is a trade deal negotiated in secret - kept top secret - and should not be allowed to proceed without public scrutiny -
- that being said - I would bet that TPP (or something like it) will pass within the next 4-8 years
Remember we have the best politicians that money can buy.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)and ignoring the rest of the world, would be beneficial to America.