川普示意美國可能重返
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered his top economic and trade advisers to look into rejoining the Pacific-rim trade pact with 11 other countries that he abandoned last year three days after he assumed power.
Farm-state lawmakers, after attending a White House meeting on agricultural trade, said Trump told his new economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to weigh the benefits of re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership that had been negotiated by the administration of former President Barack Obama.
Trump has often stated his preference for bilateral trade deals, the United States with one other country, rather than multinational pacts, in the belief that the United States does not fare well in bigger trade deals. It was not immediately clear why he now is open to rejoining the TPP.
After the U.S. dropped out of the Pacific-rim deal — one that did not include China, the world's second biggest economy after the U.S. — the 11 remaining countries formed their own pact, signing a deal last month called the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.
During opening statements at the meeting before Trump shooed out reporters, he assured the lawmakers that he intends to negotiate better trade deals for the American farmer in the face of threatened new Chinese tariffs and as contentious negotiations evolve with Canada and Mexico.
"It'll be very good when we get it all finished," Trump said. "The farmers will do fantastically well. Agriculture will be taken care of 100 percent."
The U.S. leader contended that "China has consistently treated the American farmer very poorly," noting that Beijing had until last year blocked U.S. beef sales for 14 years.
Now, in response to Trump's announced intention to impose new or higher tariffs on $150 billion worth of Chinese imports, China says it will impose new levies on an array of U.S. exports, including wheat, soybeans, corn, cranberries and orange juice, raising fears among U.S. farmers that their livelihoods are threatened.美國總統川普星期四下令他的最高經濟和貿易顧問們考慮重新加入跨太平洋合作關係協定(TPP)。去年，在上任總統三天後，川普宣佈放棄美國與11個國家簽訂的這項貿易協定。
來自農業州的議員們在白宮參加了農業貿易問題的會議後說，川普讓他的新任經濟顧問拉里·庫德洛和美國貿易代表羅伯特萊特希澤考慮重新加入TPP有什麼好處。這項協定是前總統奧巴馬時期談判達成的。
川普經常表明他更喜歡美國與其它國家達成雙邊貿易協定，而不是多邊協定。他認爲，在那些大範圍貿易協定中，美國得不到好處。他爲什麼現在願意考慮重新加入TPP，目前還不清楚。
TPP沒有包括僅次於美國的世界第二大經濟實體中國。在美國退出TPP之後。另外11個國家自行達成協議並在上個月簽署了《全面與進步跨太平洋夥伴關係協定》(CPTPP)。
在川普把記者請走之前的會議開場發言期間，川普讓議員們放心，在中國發出新的關稅威脅以及美國和加拿大與墨西哥緊張談判之際，他打算爲美國的農民謀求更好的貿易協定。
他說：“當我們一切都完成的時候，將會很好的。農民們的情形會非常的棒。農業會得到100%的照料。”
這位美國領導人說，“中國一向對美國農民很差”，他提到北京禁止銷售美國牛肉長達14年，直到去年才解禁。
最近，川普宣佈打算對價值1500億美元的中國進口產品徵收新的或更高的關稅之後，中國表示將對一系列的美國產品徵收新的關稅，這些產品包括小麥、大豆、玉米、蔓越莓和橙汁，這讓美國農民擔心他們的生計受到了威脅。
