Australia leads fight to save Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact

Talks in Hanoi are focused on salvaging the free trade deal agreed between 12 nations before Donald Trump pulled the US outAustralia is leading the charge to save the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal thrown into doubt by Donald Trump’s decision to pull America out of the pact.As fears rumble of a new global era of protectionism, Asia Pacific trade ministers gathered in Vietnam on Sunday with Australia, Japan and New Zealand at the forefront of efforts to save the dea