<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/09/16/blow-obamas-tpp-vietnam-defers" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/09/16/blow-obamas-tpp-vietnam-defers</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div id="breadcrumb-active-trail-wrapper" class=""><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 9.75pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(27, 32, 36); text-transform: uppercase;" class="">16 SEP 2016 - 8:36PM<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><h1 id="page-title" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; line-height: 27pt; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; max-width: 700px; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 70px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 27pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 110, 200); letter-spacing: -0.75pt;" class="">Blow for Obama's TPP as Vietnam defers<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h1></div><div id="block-system-main" class=""><div style="margin-bottom: 15pt;" class=""><div id="node-846025" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.5pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(27, 32, 36);" class="">Vietnam is adding to uncertainty over Barack Obama's TPP by not including the partnership on its agenda for its next session of parliament. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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padding: 0in;" class="">16 SEP 2016 - 8:36 PM</span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: red; text-transform: uppercase;" class=""> UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(27, 32, 36);" class="">Vietnam will not include ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on its agenda for its next parliament session, adding to uncertainty over the future of US President Barack Obama's signature trade deal.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(27, 32, 36);" class="">As arguably the biggest beneficiary of the deal covering 40 per cent of the global economy, Vietnam was expected to be among the first to ratify the TPP, the prospect of which helped spur record foreign investment last year in its booming manufacturing sector.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(27, 32, 36);" class="">"TPP will not be on the assembly's agenda because the government's proposal is not completed," a parliament source familiar with the matter told Reuters.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(27, 32, 36);" class="">The delay means that at the earliest, ratification by Vietnam would be several months after November's US presidential election.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(27, 32, 36);" class="">Negotiations were completed last year for the TPP, dubbed a "mega-regional accord", to create a trading zone of 12 members with a combined $US27 trillion ($A36 trillion) gross domestic product (GDP).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; 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