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Britain's Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss arrives to attend a Cabinet meeting of senior government ministers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO in London, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

U.K. starts the process of joining TPP to open up Asian market in post-Brexit era

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this April 28, 2021, file photo, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai testifies during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP, File)

Tom Carper, John Cornyn: U.S. must reengage with Asian trade partners

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump talks with reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US farmers hope Trump delivers on trade deal with Japan

By KEVIN FREKING and PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

Vietnam ratifies Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned by Trump

Associated Press

Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the National Assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. Trong on Friday submitted a Pacific Rim trade pact to the National Assembly for approval, the government said. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership will take effect at the year’s end after Australia earlier this week become the sixth nation to ratify it. (Nguyen Phuong Hoa/Vietnam News Agency via AP)

Vietnam to ratify Pacific Rim trade pact

Associated Press

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US, Japan agree to negotiate a free trade agreement

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club, Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Donald Trump downplays rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership, seeks greater trade with Japan

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with governors and lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump orders aides to pursue reopening of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2018, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arrives at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence for a meeting in Tokyo. Turnbull flies to the United States on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 accompanied by the largest Australian political and business delegation ever to visit the United States. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Australian leader off to US for talks with Trump, governors

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Swiss President Alain Berset at the World Economic Forum, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, in Davos. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump says he’d be open to TPP if it were a ‘better deal’

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Workers in Argentina's soybean fields and other biodiesel processing sites worry about what President Trump's "America first" policy means for their futures. (Associated Press/File)

‘America first’ hits Argentina’s biodiesel producers

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

NAFTA critics in Mexico see a silver lining to renegotiating the trade deal with a Donald Trump administration, saying they would like to see protections put in place for Mexican corn, beans, rice and sugar against U.S. exports and that the deal has hurt workers, farmers, unions and the environment. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Donald Trump’s trade stance is right on the money

By Dan Burton

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., listens during a forum on the future of the Democratic Party, in Denver in this Dec. 2, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Keith Ellison: I give Donald Trump credit for reading ‘political tea leaves’ on TPP

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

End of TPP leaves farmers and business leaders concerned

Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence, left, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus watch as President Donald Trump shows off 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. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Donald Trump pulls out of Trans-Pacific Partnership

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Charlie Nelson, left, shows U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman around the Nelson's Green Brier Distillery in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Froman visited the distillery to promote the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement that he said could eliminate duties on exported whiskey of up to 45 percent. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

US trade chief: TPP deal benefits whiskey exports

By ERIK SCHELZIG - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: International trade a win all around

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. speak to reporters on board the campaign airplane in this Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 photo from Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE*

TPP by another name? Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton open to Asian trade deal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping before a group photo session for the G20 Summit in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Obama makes trade deal top priority in remaining months

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said if the U.S. can't complete the Asia trade pact, it would be a significant leadership setback. (Associated Press)

Obama to try to save Asia trade deal in China

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times