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Spokesman: Trump to take executive action 'very shortly' on TPP, NAFTA

January 19, 2017 at 11:47 AM
The incoming Trump administration will issue executive orders on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and North American Free Trade Agreement "very shortly" upon taking office and will not wait for trade-related administration nominees to be confirmed by the Senate, a Trump transition spokesman said today. "Part of what he announced on the executive order list around Thanksgiving time included actions on both TPP and NAFTA. Those will be done by executive order," Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer said at a Jan. 19...

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