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US is dealing itself a losing hand with Japan

No deal that Trump administration makes with Japan can possibly make up for what was lost when he withdrew from TPP

Washington, DC

NOT content with its trade war against China, US President Donald Trump's administration has also opened bilateral trade negotiations with Japan. Yet whatever Trump hopes to achieve with Japan, it will be far less than what he threw away when he abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in early 2017.

During the 2016 US presidential campaign, he promised Americans that he would negotiate so many great deals on their behalf that they would get "tired of winning". Now that he has imposed heavy costs on US farmers, consumers, and the overall economy through tariffs on Chinese imports, Americans are probably growing quite tired indeed.

Mr Trump's withdrawal from the TPP is the canonical...

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