<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=""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-withdrawal-trumps-first-executive-action-monday-sources-say/index.html?adkey=bn" class="">http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-withdrawal-trumps-first-executive-action-monday-sources-say/index.html?adkey=bn</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 4.1333333333rem; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.064516129; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">TPP withdrawal Trump's first executive action Monday, sources say</h1><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph el__leafmedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667;">President Donald Trump on Monday will unravel the behemoth trade deal he inherited from his predecessor, as two sources familiar with the matter told CNN he plans to sign an executive order to withdraw from the negotiating process of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.</p></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">That executive order will send signals to Democrats and leaders in foreign capitals around the world that Trump's rhetoric on trade during the campaign is turning into action. Trump vowed during the campaign to withdraw the US from the Pacific trade deal, commonly known as TPP, which he argued was harmful to American workers and manufacturing.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The executive order is expected to be the first Trump will issue Monday, a senior White House official said, and will amount to the administration's first major action on foreign policy.</div><ul class="cn--idx-4 cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn-zoneAdContainer cn" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></ul><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/obama-tpp-politics-congress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s;" class="">RELATED: Obama pushes trade in Asia, but has 2016 killed the TPP?</a></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Trump's action Monday comes as the President is looking to change the conversation after a rocky first weekend at the White House, during which, he and his officials feuded with the press and his presidency with greeted with massive protests in the nation's capital and in large cities across the US.</div><div class="zn-body__read-all" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px;">Former President Barack Obama was a strong advocate for TPP, a deal which was never formally ratified in the US. </div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px;">The executive action will be just one part of the Trump administration's efforts to focus attention on its plans to radically reshape US trade policies, making good on a central premise of Trump's campaign and its economic nationalist underbelly.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px;">Trump on Monday will also meet with union leaders and blue-collar workers several hours after signing the executive order, as well as separate meetings with business leaders. </div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.6666666667; margin-right: 0px;">Trump's decision to withdraw the US from TPP is also a first step in the administration's efforts to amass a governing coalition to push the new President's agenda, one that includes the blue collars workers who defected from Democrats and flocked to Trump's candidacy in November.</div></div>
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