President Obama will be talking up the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Vietnam and Japan this week with an eye toward keeping the pressure on Congress to approve the 12-nation trade pact.

 

Administration officials hope that showing progress on TPP implementation among Asian TPP partners will make it easier to overcome congressional resistance to the agreement, which has grown with the steady attacks on TPP during the presidential campaign.

 

The administration had already sent teams to Vietnam, where Obama arrived Sunday, to talk to officials there about what the obligations they're taking on under the TPP, said U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, who accompanied Obama on the trip.

 

Obama can be counted on to talk about TPP when he addresses the Vietnamese people directly on Tuesday from Hanoi, and an aide says the president will discuss the agreement with a group of young entrepreneurs later in Ho Chi Minh City.

 

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