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SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">President-elect Donald Trump railed against the Trans-Pacific Partnership on his way to winning the White House and has vowed immediately to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation accord.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Several of his cabinet picks and other early nominees to top posts, however, have endorsed or spoken favorably about the trade pact, including Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, announced Wednesday as Mr. Trump’s pick for ambassador to China, and retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, Mr. Trump’s pick to head the Department of Defense.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">At a summer conference of U.S. governors, Mr. Branstad said the TPP was “very important to Iowa” given the role it would play opening up more markets to U.S. agricultural exports.</p><div id="realtor" class="wsj-body-ad-placement" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: 0px 0px;"></div><div data-layout="wrap
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We create jobs. And we grow farm income. That’s a positive thing, and that’s why I’m a strong supporter of free trade and the TPP.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Gen. Mattis joined 16 other retired military leaders and former defense secretaries in a May 2015 letter to congressional leaders that said TPP would help the U.S. maintain a geopolitical advantage in Asia.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">“There would be harmful strategic consequences if we fail to secure these agreements,” <a href="https://waysandmeans.house.gov/former-military-leaders-tpa-is-a-strategic-imperative/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">the letter said</a>. “Our allies and partners would question our commitments, doubt our resolve, and inevitably look to other partners.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Another signatory to that letter: <a href="http://topics.wsj.com/person/P/david,-petraeus/6164" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">David Petraeus</a>, the retired general who ran the Central Intelligence Agency and who has been considered by Mr. Trump for secretary of state. Former Massachusetts Gov. <a href="http://topics.wsj.com/person/R/mitt,-romney/6591" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Mitt Romney</a> and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., also considered candidates for the secretary of state post, have supported the TPP.</p><div id="unruly" class="wsj-body-ad-placement" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: 0px 0px;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">“Every nominee that will be put forward by the Trump Pence administration understands that trade deals must first create an advantage for American workers and American companies,” said R.C. Hammond, a spokesman for the Trump transition team.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Wilbur Ross Jr., Mr. Trump’s nominee for Commerce secretary, has been extremely critical of the TPP in recent interviews, but he <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/pfnycletter.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">signed a letter in support of the agreement last year to the New York congressional delegation</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Mr. Ross signaled his support for TPP as recently as a May appearance on Bloomberg TV, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/05/news/economy/kfile-wilbur-ross-tpp-on-tv/index.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">according to a report by CNN Money.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">“I like the TPP,” he said. “But I think also the rhetoric that everybody has in campaigns is usually quite a bit different from what comes out of the Washington negotiations.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">On <a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/FOX" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Fox Business Network</a> last week, Mr. Ross said the agreement was flawed and ruled out any prospect that it might be revived in a Trump administration. “That’s a silly treaty,” he said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">While the cabinet and ambassador picks don’t suggest Mr. Trump will change his mind on the trade deal, they highlight potential divisions and contradictions on the issue. During the campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly pointed to Democratic rival <a href="http://topics.wsj.com/person/C/hillary,-clinton/6344" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Hillary Clinton</a>’s past support for the TPP when she was secretary of state to undercut her later opposition to the deal after it was finalized.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">“The next betrayal will be the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” he said in an August speech in Detroit. “If sent to the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton will enact the TPP as sure as you’re sitting there.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Vice President-elect Mike Pence also supported the TPP as Indiana governor, but he said he changed his mind on the trade accord, and other multilateral deals, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/15/picking-mike-pence-would-create-trade-split-in-trump-ticket/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">after he discussed the issue with Mr. Trump this past July.</a></p></div></div></div><div style="clear: both;" class=""></div></div></body></html>