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Donald Trump revamps US trade focus by pulling out of Pacific deal

Trump campaigned against the TPP and other trade deals, including Nafta

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Toluse Olorunnipa, Kevin Cirilli & Austin Weinstein | Bloomberg
President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old US tilt toward free trade by signing an executive order to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that was never ratified and promising to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).

“Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump said on Monday after signing an order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) accord with 11 other nations. 

He didn’t sign any actions to direct a renegotiation of the Nafta accord with Mexico and Canada, yet he said on Sunday he would begin talks with the two leaders on modifying the

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