Trump may reconsider Trans-Pacific Partnership if it improves ‘substantially’

Published January 25, 2018 7:36pm ET



President Trump said Thursday he would be open to re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership if the massive multilateral trade agreement were made “substantially better.”

“I would do TPP if we made a much better deal than we had. The deal was terrible, the way it was structured was terrible. If we did a substantially better deal, I would be open to TPP,” the president told CNBC during an interview at the annual World Economic Forum.

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