A debate over U.S. pharmaceuticals is snagging the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal

A debate over U.S. pharmaceuticals is snagging the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal-washpost: For the Obama administration, the heady feeling over congressional passage of trade-promotion authority in June has given way to at least temporary frustration. Twelve-nation talks in Hawaii that many thought might produce a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement instead broke up at the end of July with no deal.