'A great shame': Australia tries to salvage Trans-Pacific Partnership deal after US withdraws

By Michael Koziol
Updated January 24 2017 - 6:09pm, first published 12:58pm
"It's a great shame [but] it's not unexpected": Trade Minister Steve Ciobo. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
"It's a great shame [but] it's not unexpected": Trade Minister Steve Ciobo. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Australia will attempt to salvage what is left of the moribund Trans-Pacific Partnership after US President Donald Trump used his first full day of business to formally withdraw from the free trade deal, as he had long promised.

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