Leaders react to Trump's plan to pull out of #TPP trade pact

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Published on Nov 22, 2016

World leaders have reacted to Donald Trump's announcement that the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day as President.

TPP was designed to bring down tariffs, but Trump has described the agreement, which was signed by 12 countries covering 40 percent of the world's economy, as a ''potential disaster''. He has vowed instead to negotiate separate bilateral trade deals.

In Buenos Aires, barely an hour before Trump's announcement, Japan's Shinzo Abe reacted to the…

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