Australia and New Zealand

“We’re all open to evaluating what we can do and what viable alternatives there may be,” said Peru’s deputy trade minister.

TPP11 negotiators have agreed to meet again in Australia later in the summer.

“There’s nothing wrong with change . . . but ultimately . . . we need to start building up, collectively, the direction we all want to head in.”

While U.S. trading partners are greatly disappointed by the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- and hoping for a change of heart in Washington -- Australia’s envoy to the U.S., Joe Hockey, this week said he did not consider the withdrawal a sign that the U.S. is turning its back on the Asia-Pacific.

New Zealand's ambassador to the U.S. last week claimed “clear evidence of convergence” among Trans-Pacific Partnership countries that the deal will move ahead without the U.S., but said their continuing pursuit of the agreement should not be mistaken as an “unfriendly act” targeted at the United States.

A look back at what went on in Hanoi.

Inside U.S. Trade spoke with the trade minister in Hanoi about TPP and the country's trading relationship with the U.S.

HANOI – Trade officials from Japan, Australia and New Zealand, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ministers meeting here, told Inside U.S. Trade they were not in favor of reopening provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a way to ensure its entry into force without the United States – citing a potential unraveling of the deal and the maintenance of the high standards agreed to when the U.S. was still involved.