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The hated Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will soon be dead. Yay?

Warm Braw

lack of environmental protection

That one thing alone has probably scuppered any future trade deals involving the US (Mrs. May please take note). If the Trumpish US really abolishes its already limited controls on fossil fuels there's simply no way there can be "free" trade with any country signed up to the Paris Climate Agreement, because the US would have an undue economic advantage by virtue of externalising its costs through its smokestacks.

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