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Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership

posted by on Tuesday November 22 2016, @09:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-going-back-to-bartering dept.

n1 writes:

Donald Trump says he will issue an executive action on his first day in office to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

In a video updating Americans on the White House transition, the President-elect described TPP as a "potential disaster for our country".

[...] Mr Trump said his administration instead intends to generate "fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores".

Sky Correspondent Greg Milam said: "Donald Trump has been very critical of what trade deals have done for American workers and the damage that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) did in the 1990s - particularly to low-income workers in the Midwest, who it turns out voted for Mr Trump in huge numbers."

Source: Sky News

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:09AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:09AM (#431672) Journal

    Drink bleach, with any luck...

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:27AM (#431729)

    Have I ever mentioned, Azuma Hazuki, that one of the things I like most about you is your ironclad dedication to keeping the tenor of discourse classy and high-minded at all times? And how you're never, ever a complete dumpster fire of a human being, even in jest? And your inability to get a joke?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:29PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:29PM (#431950) Journal

      *robotic phone message voice* We're sorry, that joke has already been used, and used in its proper context. Please hang up and try again when you have an original thought of you own, as well as some sense of when to use it. Thank you, and have a nice day. *click*

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      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:17PM

        by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:17PM (#432162) Journal

        "Hellar? Hellar? Mister or Missus Asumi Azhuki? My name is Farscape Mowgli and I represent the Shaw of Tardis, who is trapped by a Weevil and if only you could lend him $1000 as a bribe, he would be eternally grateful and pay you back a thousand folders. Hellar? Hellar, ares anyone there?"
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        *click*

        Yes... i hate phones too. :)

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  • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:44PM

    by arulatas (3600) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:44PM (#431999)

    But is it American bleach or is it manufactured in another country?

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:10PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:10PM (#432017) Journal

      Definitely American bleach, and that's no lye =p

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