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Michael Froman

...deals. We'd begun to engage in these TPP negotiations and these T-TI...
...about today which you mentioned are TPP and T-TIP, and how they relate both t...
...and economic elements to it, and TPP was the economic element. So it was ...
...as USTR is on the negotiations over TPP and T-TIP. So maybe you could sketc...
...that. Okay, so, I want to turn to TPP now because, as I said, in th...

...free trade agreement that the TPP countries continued on without th...
...both some things that were covered in TPP that just simply hadn't been a facto...
...they weren't fully enforceable. Well, TPP was the renegotiation of NAFTA, becaus...
...ask, was about the relationship between TPP and NAFTA. Maybe I missed it, but ...
...this, that were most contentious in TPP ? Was it labor, environment...
...weren't at the table, that didn't join TPP that maybe the administration wa...
...expressed interest in joining TPP . And TPP was always intended to be ...
...expressed interest in joining TPP. And TPP was always intended to be a platfor...
...towards Asia. Every country in TPP , including ourselves, needed to have ...
...global economy going forward. And the TPP was an effort to bring together thi...
...to live by. That was really the goal of TPP . To do it in that region wit...
...counterparts—obviously not in the TPP negotiations, but what's the tenor o...
...the tenor of the discussion around TPP ? Is it seen as a provocative set o...
...the US in terms of getting involved in TPP ? Or how does that play, basically? ...
...I countered publicly by saying, “ TPP is something you aspire to, not tha...
...a debate going on within China about TPP . And as I went back to China on ...
...me aside and want to know, how are the TPP negotiations going? What are the majo...
...challenges, or meet the standards of TPP on state of enterprises, intellectua...
...we did as China raised question about TPP was to say, Why don't we focus more o...
...is serious about reform? So while the TPP negotiations were going on, we wer...
...We took many of the disciplines from TPP in some form or another and importe...
...to play a role in setting them through TPP —not seed the ground, as you say? Mayb...
...of the road” or China is going to. TPP is our way of ensuring we have a sea...
...China. Our goal, our strategy, was do TPP , have these new standards, do T-TI...
...there were countries who wanted to join TPP —you'd end up with having seventy-fiv...
...well because they have to compete in a TPP world. Yeah. So this would help the...
...I'm trying to pivot back as well to the TPP negotiations—but what role do domesti...
...became relatively contentious around TPP . I also know that there was some o...
...inputs into Congress as well. So, TPP is signed by the negotiating parties...
...a sense that the politics surrounding TPP were going to prevent it from bein...
...primary process, then we'll take up TPP .” I think they were surprised, a...
...he was very vocal about his support for TPP and about trade agreements i...
...the eleven countries that continue the TPP . In USMCA, which is about eighty-fiv...
...is about eighty-five percent drawn from TPP , in the proposed US-UK agreement o...
...agreement, which comes directly from TPP . So the same substance is making it...
...to that position. In fact, even with TPP , they took about two dozen provision...
...rejoins, we'll bring this back into TPP .” So they very much want the US to b...
...administration. Because it's not just TPP ; it's the Iran agreement, it's Paris...
...fast-track legislative authority for TPP in July of 2015. This was no...
...me as kind of a key episode related to TPP . You mentioned the delay. Were th...
...was that tied to the particulars of TPP ? Or was that a broader fight over fre...
...to link it to what they don't like in TPP , say you're voting to allow TPP...
...like in TPP, say you're voting to allow TPP . Otherwise, you're taking a hard vot...
...became a bit of a substitute vote for TPP . So we knew where the politics lay i...
...just ask: How is T-TIP different from TPP in terms of the diversity of countrie...
...that weren't necessarily the case in TPP ? In some respects, T-TIP should hav...
...you were talking about with regard to TPP and Vietnam, Malaysia, or even Brunei...
...with Canada and Mexico, and now with TPP . You have all these other free trad...
...What was the loss there? Obviously TPP is part of this grand rebalance t...
...opportunity. If you had taken the TPP agreement that was done and added to i...
...referring to the work that you put into TPP , only to see it not come up fo...
...for edification? Yes. Look, I think TPP was not a perfect agreement, by an...

Jason Furman

...about the Trans-Pacific Partnership [ TPP ] and trade more generally. You'd said...
...of Republicans in our efforts to pass TPP . So the real change that happened i...

Krysta Harden

...over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP . I've read that you hosted a number o...
...of trade roundtables in 2015 to discuss TPP and Trade Promotion Authority. Wha...

David Cote

...of the Trans-Pacific Partnership [ TPP ], of course. In your testimony, yo...
...a mistake. I was hugely supportive of TPP , the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an...
...a huge mistake to not proceed with the TPP ; still is. That's fascinating. Thank...

Ursula Burns

...disagreement. A ton of lack of success. TPP was one of the things that we tried. W...
...the things that we tried. We worked on TPP for the entire time I was on the Expor...
...home. An example of not doing that was TPP , where we couldn't get consensus so w...
...values as well. You mentioned that TPP was one area where it was ultimatel...
...memories now, of course, reflecting on TPP , about why it was so difficult t...

...was so difficult to reach consensus on TPP , and what the obstacles were t...
...and what the obstacles were to getting TPP done? I think that most of th...
...disagreement. So, big nonsupporters of TPP were unions, who thought that we woul...
...here. There were many other issues with TPP , which to some extent that would b...
...of the good of the broad. I think that TPP fell victim to that ultimately...

Ron Kirk

...with the Trans-Pacific Partnership [ TPP ], which would've been, and now is, th...
...objectionable now. Since you mentioned TPP , perhaps this is a good way to segu...
...on it. So, that was the thinking behind TPP . It was both strategic—it was, as ...

Max Baucus

...of is the Trans-Pacific Partnership [ TPP ], which is extremely important for U...
...least we're present in the region with TPP . I'm sorry. How does BRI connect t...
...sorry. How does BRI connect to TPP ? Only that we're present. It's ...
...and convince people in Congress to pass TPP , what other role did you play in th...
...attempt to develop and negotiate the TPP ? Was there any other role for th...

Jeffrey Bader

...I guess I had in mind whether TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] was a...
...could perhaps be disruptive. And so TPP or other diplomatic efforts, othe...
...but disruption nevertheless. I think TPP had several—I'll pick up that because ...
...had a core group of countries such as TPP , eleven or so countries with simila...
...practices in order to conform to the TPP standards in the key areas. So I thin...

...mine for eventual Chinese membership in TPP and the door was kept open for China...
...at the time. It was hard enough to sell TPP without China, as we saw. It wasn'...

Henry Paulson

...progress there. You mentioned before TPP . How do you think the Obam...
...the Obama administration understood TPP in its relationship with China? ...
...basis. If we put together this TPP , which—it would've been very powerfu...
...constraints to competition. So the TPP was a brilliant idea. It wasn't hatche...
...[laughs] because we're not part of the TPP . It's not the same stick to use t...

...the Chinese would ask me about the TPP when I was visiting China after leavin...
...They're incredibly focused on the TPP . Again, I look at this as a grea...
...to get it done. And I look at TPP that same way with President Obama. I...
...would've succeeded on getting the TPP done. Otherwise, I think it was just ...

Richard Trumka

...and trade under Obama? I think the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] was not—AF...
...was not—AFL was not a supporter of TPP , or at least not the fast track. ...
...been a minority party forever if TPP would've passed. Again, that's Mik...

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