“This whole trade thing blew up,” Kudlow told the new York times in an interview on Thursday. “There’s no timeline. We will put a team together, but we are not done yet — I mean, it just happened a few hours ago.”
Later, the Deputy press Secretary of the White house Lindsey Walters confirmed the President asked, Kudlow and Lighthizer to “another look at whether a better deal can be negotiated”.
Late on Thursday evening, the US President tweeted only considering re-entering the business if it is “significantly better” than the Internet, which was developed by the Obama administration.
New conversations based on participation in the TPP comes as the President intends to meet with the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago next week. The two are expected to discuss trade and is expected to meet the President with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-UN.
In his first week in office, President signed a decree on the withdrawal of the US from the Treaty, after consistently opposed him during the election campaign.
“The TRANS-Pacific partnership is another disaster, did and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country. Just continue to rape our country. That’s what it is” – he said at a campaign rally 2016 in Saint Clairsville, Ohio.
Sourse: abcnews.go.com
