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Trump Withdraws U.S. From Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact agreed to under the Obama administration, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
Mr. Trump's move was the fulfillment of a campaign promise to end U.S. participation in the proposed TPP deal, which was aimed at eliminating most tariffs and other trade barriers among the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Vietnam and half a dozen other countries around the Pacific. China is excluded from the deal.
The memorandum announcing Mr. Trump's decision was largely symbolic, because congressional leaders and the Obama administration had signaled in November that no near-term vote would be held on the TPP.
Still, Mr. Trump's decision to bury Mr. Obama's agreement in his first week shows he is serious about shifting U.S. trade policy and jettisoning decades of mostly steady trade liberalization in favor of more confrontation with China and other trading partners, with the potential for big tariffs if those countries don't come to the table ready to make concessions.
"We've been talking about this for a long time," Mr. Trump said as he signed the memorandum.
Mr. Obama had hoped the TPP and its commercial rules of the road would put pressure on Beijing to curb the advantages given to its state-owned enterprises, respect intellectual property more and even lower tariffs beyond levels agreed upon when China entered the World Trade Organization 15 years ago.
But Mr. Trump and his advisers have eschewed multilateral trade blocs and preferred other methods, including the threat of tariffs, to clinch bilateral deals.
Write to William Mauldin at william.mauldin@wsj.com and Carol E. Lee at carol.lee@wsj.com
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Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Leaders of prospective member states at a TPP summit in 2010
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| Type | Trade agreement |
|---|---|
| Drafted | 5 October 2015[1][2][3] |
| Signed | 4 February 2016 |
| Location | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Effective | Not in force |
| Condition | Ratification by all original signatories, or (2 years after signature) ratification by 6 states corresponding to 85% of GDP of original signatories[4] |
| Original signatories | |
| Ratifiers |
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| Depositary | New Zealand |
| Languages | English (prevailing in case of divergence), Spanish, and French |
 Trans-Pacific Partnership at Wikisource | |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is a trade agreement among twelve of the Pacific Rim countries—notably not including China. The finalized proposal was signed on 4 February 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand, concluding seven years of negotiations. It is currently awaiting ratification to enter into force. The 30 chapters of the agreement aim to "promote economic growth; support the creation and retention of jobs; enhance innovation, productivity and competitiveness; raise living standards; reduce poverty in the signatories' countries; and promote transparency, good governance, and enhanced labor and environmental protections."[6] The TPP contains measures to lower both non-tariff and tariff barriers to trade,[7] and establish an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism.[6][8]
The TPP began as an expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP or P4) signed by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore in 2005. Beginning in 2008, additional countries joined the discussion for a broader agreement: Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, United States, and Vietnam, bringing the total number of countries participating in the negotiations to twelve. Current trade agreements between participating countries, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, will be reduced to those provisions that do not conflict with the TPP or provide greater trade liberalization than the TPP.[9] The United States government considers the TPP a companion agreement to the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a broadly similar agreement between the U.S. and the European Union.[10]
Participating nations aimed at completing negotiations in 2012, but the process was prolonged by disagreements over contentious issues, including agriculture, intellectual property, and services and investments.[11] They finally reached agreement on October 5, 2015.[12] On the same day, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated he expected "signatures on the finalized text and deal early in the new year, and ratification over the next two years."[13]Implementing the TPP had also been one of the trade agenda goals of the Obama administration in the U.S.[14] A version of the treaty text "Subject to Legal Review (...) for Accuracy, Clarity and Consistency"[15] was made public on November 5, 2015, the same day President Obama notified Congress he intended to sign it.[16] On 20 November 2016, Singapore declared that they would amend legislation to bring the TPP into effect.[17]
On 21 November 2016, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump announced that he planned to withdraw the United States from the TPP after he took office; Trump had made statements critical of the agreement during the 2016 presidential campaign. As was promised, President Trump signed an executive order on 23 January 2017 to withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
MEMBERSHIP
Twelve countries participated in negotiations for the TPP: the four parties to the 2005 Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement and eight additional countries. All twelve signed the TPP on 4 February 2016.[19] The agreement will enter into force after ratification by all signatories, if this occurs within two years. If the agreement is not ratified by all before 4 February 2018, it will enter into force after ratification by at least 6 states which together have a GDP of more than 85% of the GDP of all signatories.
On January 23, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the agreement, making its ratification virtually impossible.[20]
| Country | Status 2005 agreement | Signature of TPP | Start of TPP Negotiations | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Singapore | Party (28 May 2006) | 4 February 2016 | February 2008 | |
 Brunei | Party (28 May 2006) | 4 February 2016 | February 2008 | |
 New Zealand | Party (12 July 2006) | 4 February 2016 | February 2008 | |
 Chile | Party (8 November 2006) | 4 February 2016 | February 2008 | |
 United States | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | February 2008 | 23 January 2017[21] |
 Australia | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | November 2008 | |
 Peru | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | November 2008 | |
 Vietnam | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | November 2008 | |
 Malaysia | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | October 2010 | |
 Mexico | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | October 2012 | |
 Canada[22] | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | October 2012 | |
 Japan | Non-party | 4 February 2016 | May 2013 |
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