27-05-2025
Trump has created an opportunity for global trade partnerships to thrive
Sohini Chatterjee, a former senior official at the U.S. Department of State who served as a lead U.S. negotiator on the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the Administration of President Barack Obama, is an international attorney and former Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.
Years ago, after painstaking months of brutal talks that took place all over the globe and brought together negotiation experts from a slew of different countries with distinctive cultural, economic and political leanings, an immense and innovative trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was about to be born. Suddenly and at the 11th hour, the U.S. abruptly bailed from the negotiations.