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Spokesman: Trump dislikes giving other countries the same 'stature' in multilateral deals

January 23, 2017 at 5:17 PM
President Trump dislikes multilateral trade deals because they give other countries the same “stature” as the United States, his spokesman said on Monday, explaining the decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sean Spicer, in his first news conference at the White House, fielded numerous questions on trade the same day the president issued a memorandum directing agencies to withdraw the U.S. from TPP. Spicer said the move was about more than TPP, calling it “symbolic both here in...


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