With Release Of Full Text, New Details In Trade Deal Emerge

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November 05, 2015

Trade representatives attend a press conference for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a pan-Pacific trade agreement by trade ministers from 12 nations in Sydney on October 27, 2014. The TPP, which would encompass 40 percent of the global economy and include 12 nations, just struck a deal today. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)

New details on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal are emerging as the Obama administration released a full draft of the agreement Thursday.

Vietnam will extend labor concessions to its workers as part of the deal. The plan would give laborers in the communist country the ability to strike and unionize.

The U.S. Congress now has a window to review the pact. NPR's Marilyn Geewax discusses the details of the deal with Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson.

Guest

Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor for NPR. She tweets @geewaxnpr.

This segment aired on November 5, 2015.

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