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The United States
sealed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 11 trading
partners this week, after more than five years of negotiations.
"The lawyers are working right now to finalize the text and to
prepare it for release. We hope to get it out within the next 30
days," Froman said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
GPS, to be broadcast on Sunday, according to a transcript.
Under a timetable laid out by the U.S. Congress, the text of any
trade deal should be made public 30 days after the
administration notifies Congress that it intends to sign it.
President Barack Obama can sign the deal 60 days after the text
is made public.
Froman also brushed off criticism of the TPP, a central plank of
the administration's pivot to Asia, by U.S. Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Clinton, who backed the developing trade pact when she was
secretary of state during Obama's first term, said on Wednesday:
"The bar here is very high and, based on what I have seen, I
don't believe the agreement has met it."
Froman said he did not want to comment on presidential politics
but said the deal was of a "very high standard."
"I'm convinced as the people sit down and take the time to go
through it in detail, that they'll come to a positive judgment,"
he said.
(Reporting by Krista Hughes; Editing by David Gregorio)
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