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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 09:08 AM Apr 2018

TPP Nations Welcome Trump's Interest, Don't Want Renegotiation

Source: Bloomberg News




By Justin Sink and Margaret Talev
April 12, 2018, 12:36 PM EDT Updated on April 13, 2018, 5:12 AM EDT

Members of an 11-nation Asia-Pacific trade pact said Friday they opposed any renegotiation of the deal to accommodate the U.S. should it decide to rejoin at a later date.

Ministers from Japan, Australia and Malaysia welcomed President Donald Trump directing officials to explore returning to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a pact he withdrew from shortly after coming to office. But they also cautioned against making any significant changes.

"We welcome the U.S. coming back to the table but I don’t see any wholesale appetite for any material re-negotiation of the TPP-11,” Australia Trade Minister Steven Ciobo said Friday.

Toshimitsu Motegi, Japan’s minister in charge of TPP, also said it would be difficult to change the deal, calling it a "balanced one, like fine glassware." Malaysia’s International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed echoed these remarks, saying that renegotiation would "alter the balance of benefits for parties.”



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/trump-deputizes-kudlow-lighthizer-to-review-tpp-sasse-says




Trump: I'll Only Join TPP If I Get a Better Deal Than Obama

President Trump has confirmed reports that he’s considering rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership—the trade agreement he decided to quit shortly after taking office—but only if he gets a better deal than former President Obama’s team had. Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Trump was exploring whether of not to rejoin the trade partnership and has directed officials to examine whether or not it would be worthwhile. In a late post on Twitter on Thursday, the president wrote: “Would only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama. We already have BILATERAL deals with six of the eleven nations in TPP, and are working to make a deal with the biggest of those nations, Japan, who has hit us hard on trade for years!” The president previously criticized the TPP as a “disaster.”




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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ill-only-join-tpp-if-i-get-a-better-deal-than-obama?ref=home
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TPP Nations Welcome Trump's Interest, Don't Want Renegotiation (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
Ok. They're missing out on a very stable genius dalton99a Apr 2018 #1
agreed NewJeffCT Apr 2018 #2
Its not about tpp, its about Obama. Which is why he reneged on it his first day in office. He notdarkyet Apr 2018 #3
I believe that's how diplomats say "Fuck you, pal, that ship has sailed." hatrack Apr 2018 #4
That's The Sensible Stand smb Apr 2018 #5
Fucking called it, BTW. joshcryer Apr 2018 #6
He'll never join TPP. Just thinks he's a 'great negotiator' and this threat put pressure on China pampango Apr 2018 #7
Offered to Obama???? karynnj Apr 2018 #8

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
3. Its not about tpp, its about Obama. Which is why he reneged on it his first day in office. He
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 09:33 AM
Apr 2018

Doesn’t care about any deals or policies, just getting rid of Obama’s name on anything. Wait till he sees what we do to his name when he’s gone.

smb

(3,471 posts)
5. That's The Sensible Stand
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 10:41 AM
Apr 2018

i.e. "You want back in after walking out? OK, but it'll be strictly under the terms we came up with among ourselves after you walked (well, golf-carted) away -- no renegotiation, no reactivation of any of the terms the US wanted and we suspended when we made the current deal."

Since many of the suspended terms requested by US special interests range from bad to horrible (e.g. limits on the ability of national law to rein in multinational corporations, copyright provisions that would cripple what remains of fair use), this would actually result in a better deal.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
7. He'll never join TPP. Just thinks he's a 'great negotiator' and this threat put pressure on China
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 06:50 AM
Apr 2018

to negotiate a 'better deal' in the current tariff-threat standoff. Trump hates multilateral agreements - Iran, Paris, NAFTA, TPP, etc.. They are all a threat to national sovereignty - our right to do whatever we want to anyone we want for whatever reason we decide on.

karynnj

(59,503 posts)
8. Offered to Obama????
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 08:16 AM
Apr 2018

This is a RW Trump frane. Obama led on crafting that deal . It was a big deal to get everyone to agree.

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