Asia should go ahead with TPP trade deal without US: report
Regional pacts 'best way to liberalising trade, promoting reforms, raising standards'
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ASIAN countries should pursue a Pacific trade pact even after the United States walked away, and its standards should be incorporated into other regional deals, according to a report authored by half a dozen former trade envoys.
President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in one of his first acts as US president, throwing an agreement that covered 40 per cent of the global economy into disarray.
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