Agreement over revised Pacific Rim trade pact stalled
Talks on a Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned by US president Donald Trump appear to have stalled as Canada baulked at a basic agreement worked out in top-level talks hours before.
Mr Trump pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in January, and l eaders of the 11 countries remaining in the pact had been due to meet and endorse a deal worked out at a ministerial level overnight.
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