Hanoi: Vietnam became the seventh country to ratify a sprawling Pacific trade pact set to come into effect later this year, despite US President Donald Trump’s pullout from a deal he decried as a “job killer”.
Eleven countries revived a slimmed-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without Washington, though the new pact keeps the door open in case of a change of heart – or government – in the world’s largest economy.
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