Negotiations for the sweeping agreement, which would include the U.S. and the 28 member states of the European Union, have progressed slowly.
It was quick and easy for President Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
With a stroke of his new presidential pen, he buried the massive Pacific free-trade agreement that the Obama administration had painstakingly negotiated, even though the 12-nation accord had been moribund for the last year after losing political support. It had little chance of being ratified by Congress.
The real questions are: What will Trump replace it with? And when and how will he remake America’s economic relations with the rest of the world?
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