Trump’s TPP Withdrawal Dashes Hopes For Cosmetics Regulatory Alignment

President Trump’s executive order to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is intended to help American workers, but for the cosmetics industry, the move likely marks a foiled opportunity.

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While it was promised and widely expected, President Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement during his first days in office ends years of negotiations toward lower trade barriers and cosmetics regulatory harmonization across member countries.

With the US walking away from the table, the pact cannot achieve the ratifying signatory heft, in GDP terms, required...

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