Obama Plans Another Appeal for Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal

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President Obama, beginning a final uphill push for a trade initiative that is opposed by both party’s presidential candidates, will host an Oval Office meeting on Friday to showcase support among public figures in both parties.

 

Mr. Obama will convene a bipartisan group to discuss the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 12-nation Pacific trade agreement whose completion he has made a top priority, White House officials said.

 

Expected attendees include Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a former contender for the Republican presidential nomination, and Henry M. Paulson Jr., who served as Treasury secretary under George W. Bush, as well as Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, a Democrat, and Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta, a Democrat.

 

Michael R. Bloomberg, the financial news magnate and Republican-turned-independent former mayor of New York, and Virginia Rometty, the chief executive of IBM, will also attend, as will James G. Stavridis, the former NATO commander.

 

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