Trump vows to kill Asia trade deal being pursued by Biden if elected
Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that he would kill off a Pacific trade pact being advanced by US President Joe Biden if he were to win the 2024 election and return to the White House.
Speaking to supporters in Iowa, Trump said he was against the regional trade deal being negotiated by the Biden administration with 13 other countries, arguing that it would hollow out US manufacturing and trigger job losses.
Talks on the trade sections of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, which is aimed at offering the region an alternative to China's growing trade clout, stumbled in recent days after some countries, including Vietnam and Indonesia, declined to commit to strong labor and environmental standards.
Trump, who withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that had been forged with many of the same countries after taking office in January 2017, said he would "knock out" what he referred to as "TPP Two" immediately upon taking office.
"Under the next administration... the Biden plan for 'TPP Two' will be dead on day one," Trump said at a campaign event in Fort Dodge, about 94 miles (150 km) north of Des Moines.
"It's worse than the first one, threatening to pulverize farmers and manufacturers with another massive globalist monstrosity designed to turbocharge outsourcing to Asia."
The Biden administration had hoped to finish key chapters of its IPEF trade initiative in time for this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. It has vowed to continue negotiating the ambitious deal, but election-year pressures and resistance to tough commitments from some countries make a deal unlikely, trade experts and business groups say. (Reuters-Yonhap)
(责任编辑:부동산)
下一篇:Festivals to illuminate Seoul’s winter nights
- ·Mayplace Hotel marks ninth anniversary with room promotions
- ·Daewoong aims to reshape obesity market with patch
- ·SK Bioscience ramps up global cooperation to improve public health
- ·Enhypen's new album to be led by 'Sweet Venom'
- ·[Test Drive] Upgraded Polestar 2 dons Iron Man mask
- ·Over 90 pct of cattle vaccinated against lumpy skin disease
- ·Breaking silence over drug allegations, G
- ·Election calculus dominates debate on Seoul expansion plan
- ·군사합의 효력 정지 책임 넘긴 北 "한반도 전쟁은 시점 문제"
- ·Yoon plans state visits to UK, Netherlands later this year
- ·Tapas bar explores modern interpretations of kimchi
- ·Young swimmer enjoys self
- ·[Hello Indonesia] Cultural tapestry woven at 'Korea
- ·[Herald Interview] S&P economist tells Korea to brace for worst
- ·Satellite imagery highlights 'dramatic' increase in N. Korea
- ·S. Korea defeat Japan for 3rd straight men's football gold
- ·Celltrion's Zymfentra to make US debut in February
- ·문재인 "부동산 정책, 초유 상황에 실책…신뢰 잃어 뼈아프다"
- ·Minho of SHINee to hold first solo fan concert in January
- ·NK sports broadcast labels S. Korea ‘puppets'
- ·Seoul prepares for first major military parade in ten years
- ·Asiana may ditch cargo business to close Korean Air merger deal
- ·Corning appoints company veteran as new Korea head
- ·Orchestra composed of players with visual impairment to perform Oct. 4
- ·S. Korean women dominate recurve archery at Asian Games
- ·S. Korean fencer Oh Sang
- ·Corning appoints company veteran as new Korea head
- ·보란듯 제재 무시하며 국제법 준수?…김정은 활용하는 푸틴의 속내는