“Rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Dropping out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement might have been the Trump Administration’s biggest trade policy mistake.”
Citation: Project 2025, Section 4.6: Trade, Kent Lassman, page 847, paragraph 3
Context:
Colin Grabow for the Cato Institute writes:
“Even U.S. leaders have implicitly recognized that U.S. withdrawal from the TPP placed the United States on the back foot in trade. In 2019, President Trump concluded a limited “mini-deal” with Japan to claw back some of the lost gains from TPP withdrawal. Presented as the prelude to a more comprehensive agreement (which never happened), the market access improvements realized from the agreement—mostly on agriculture and industrial goods—were still inferior to what would have been gained via the TPP.
Art of the deal, indeed. [Source]17
Full contextual analysis of Section 4.6: Trade here.
Section: Section 4.6: Trade