WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he is willing to sit down with the next leader of the United Statees to discuss the merits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
"Hopefully after the election is over and the dust settles, there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal, and it won’t just be a political symbol," Obama stated in a press briefing. "I will actually sit down with people on both sides — on the right and on the left — I’ll sit down publicly with them and we’ll go through the whole provisions."
On October 5, 12 countries of the Pacific Rim region reached an agreement on the wording and subject matter of the TPP trade deal, intended to deregulate trade among the signatories which together make up some 40 percent of the world economy.
The parties to the TPP agreement are the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.
