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By Emily Stephenson and Amanda Becker
MONESSEN, Pennsylvania/WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) -
R epublican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday
promised to renegotiate international trade deals, withdraw from
them if he is not satisfied and use executive power to remedy
trade disputes with China if he wins the White House.
Trump, speaking at an aluminum scrap metal factory in
Monessen, Pennsylvania, said he saw no way to fix the pending
12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and that he was
willing to withdraw from the decades-old North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico if it was not
renegotiated to his satisfaction.
"The TPP, as it's known, would be the death blow for
American manufacturing," Trump said.
Trump was unveiling his trade agenda in Pennsylvania and
Ohio on Tuesday, manufacturing states in which he and
presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are battling for
working-class voters ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
Democratic President Barack Obama won Pennsylvania and Ohio
in 2008 and 2012, but those states have been hard hit by
manufacturing job losses. Clinton struggled with these voters in
her Democratic primary race against U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders,
who criticized her for supporting trade deals and said she was
too close to Wall Street.
Trump echoed Sanders' criticism in Pennsylvania, saying
Clinton supported the TPP while she was U.S. secretary of state
and only opposed it once she was running for president.
Clinton's campaign called the presumptive Republican
nominee's remarks an attempt to distract from "his dangerous
economic policies."
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