The White House is considering re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership¹ (TPP), a trade pact² that President Donald Trump³ pulled the United States out last year.

 

美国正在考虑重新加入跨太平洋伙伴关系协定，特朗普曾在去年退出该贸易协定。

 

"It is good news that today the President directed Larry Kudlow and Ambassador Lighthizer to negotiate U.S. entry into TPP," said Republican Senator Ben Sasse in a statement after a meeting with Trump on Thursday.

 

The White House had no official announcement on this issue yet.

 

According to local media reports, Trump on Thursday told a group of lawmakers at the meeting which Sasse also attended that he has directed the U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer and National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow to study the possibility of re-entering the TPP if the terms are favorable.

 

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump called TPP a "disaster". He pulled the United States out of the Pacific trade deal in January last year, one of his first moves as president.

 

Earlier this year, the remaining 11 TPP nations, including Japan and Canada, announced they struck an alternative agreement without the United States.

 

Although the United States has withdrawn⁴ from the TPP, Trump has signaled his interest in reconsidering the trade deal.

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