Uncertainty about whether the Obama administration can marshal enough votes in Congress to ratify the TPP has now been compounded by proposed legislation that would impose tariff duties on countries that engage in “currency manipulation.” If such a link between trade and currency policy were forced into the TPP, the Asian participants would refuse to join.
货币摩擦最终可能导致贸易摩擦，而货币战争可能导致贸易战争。而这可能让正在着力完成大型地区级跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（Trans-Pacific Partnership，TPP）的美国陷入麻烦。关于奥巴马政府是否能够在国会赢得足够选票批准TPP的问题现在变得更加不确定，因为一项立法提案试图对参与“货币操纵”的国家征收关税。如果这一将贸易和货币政策联系起来的立法被写入TPP，亚洲参与者将拒绝加入。