Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that he would kill off a Pacific trade pact being advanced by U.S. 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 U.S. manufacturing and trigger job losses.

Talks on the trade sections of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), 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 (TPP) 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.

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    He knows how to kill trade, destroy livelihoods, and still not lose a single vote from the same people. Just ask soybean farmers.

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    Because the republican traitor filth are actively working against American interests. They aren’t worthy of the oxygen they breathe.

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    You say the word “manufacturing” to Conservatives, and they go into a trance, as if everybody is like them and dreams of working as unskilled labor on an assembly line.

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    Is there a reason he isn’t being barred from running for office cause if not…he’s gonna start a civil war by getting himself killed…

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        More I think its just people being pussies as well as corruption. Ppl scared to throw him in jail where he belongs for the crimes he did actually do regardless of if he was president at some point.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    FORT DODGE, Iowa, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that he would kill off a Pacific trade pact being advanced by U.S. 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 U.S. manufacturing and trigger job losses.

    Talks on the trade sections of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), 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.

    “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 (APEC) meeting.


    The original article contains 283 words, the summary contains 211 words. Saved 25%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is a nothingburger, lol. The Asian countries that have joined the IPEF are just “giving face” to Biden and keeping the door open. The deals that are actually substantively shaping Asian trade are the CPTPP and RCEP, the latter of which includes China, and both of which exclude the US.

    It would be funny if, after Biden watered down the IPEF into irrelevancy, it ended up becoming a way for Trump to attack him politically anyway.

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    Would have been a much more interesting headline if they just stopped after the fourth or fifth word…