US Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Washington is ready to welcome Russia and China as new members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
‘We welcome China, we invite Russia, we invite other countries which wish to join if they want to increase their standards and live under high standards of people’s protection, work openly, transparently and responsibly’, the head of US diplomacy said.
5 October, 2015, in Atlanta, the United States and 11 countries of the Pacific coast have agreed to establish the world’s largest trade union The Trans-Pacific Partnership. The free trade agreement between 12 countries, which are situated on both sides of the Pacific, including the US, Australia, Brunei, Vietnam, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Chile and Japan, will cover almost 40% of world trade .