US pulls out of Trans-Pacific Partnership

With the stroke of a pen from President Donald Trump, the United States officially withdrew Monday from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed and controversial 12-nation trade pact dealing with everything from intellectual property to human rights.

“Everybody knows what that means, right? We’ve been talking about this for a long time,” Trump said as he signed the order and made good on his campaign promise to remove the US from the trade deal. “A great thing for the American worker.” During the election campaign, he called the TPP a “disaster.”