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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @01:43PM
Really? The world has ALWAYS had trade agreements. Going back thousands of years! The world was explored because of, or to get around, trade agreements. This is why the position of diplomat or emissary is thousands of years old. In fact, trade agreements, or lack thereof, is the cause of many wars through history.