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Barack Obama: The TPP will boost our economies, lowering barriers to trade and investment, increasing exports, and creating more jobs…

On the recordNovember 11, 2011
The TPP will boost our economies, lowering barriers to trade and investment, increasing exports, and creating more jobs for our people, which is my number-one priority.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks During a Meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Honolulu

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