And as we look to the future of our trade agenda, completing that successful Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will ultimately lead to agreatdeal of economic benefit to the United States.
But he remains -- while adhering to his principles -- hopeful that we can get a bigger deal, because it would be of such greatbenefit to the economy and to the American middle class.
Another benefit is that a single number summarises what would otherwise be an immensely complicated picture, and one that varies agreatdeal (in quantitatively incommensurate ways) from country to country.