Asia Today (26/1/2018)

Eleven nations, including Australia and Vietnam, have agreed to sign a revised Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal in March.

Trade Minister Steve Ciobo said the deal would eliminate 98 per cent of tariffs in a marketplace worth close to $14 trillion. Source: AAP

The future of the deal was brought into question when the United States withdrew from the partnership shortly after President Trump's inauguration last year.

But Australian Trade Minister Steve Ciobo says revisions to the agreement enabled the remaining countries to find common ground.