Hatch suggests TPP with Japan alone could garner Trump's support
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) this week suggested that limiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership to a bilateral U.S.-Japan free trade agreement could be a way to get President-elect Trump on board. Acknowledging that Trump "says he's against" TPP, which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing through the Diet, Hatch offered an alternative solution. "Well, there's a difference between doing a whole TPP for the 12 countries that we were doing it for and doing it with Japan, which...