Like the "rebalancing to Asia-Pacific" strategy of US President Barack Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement also faces uncertainty with Donald Trump, who will enter the White House on Jan 20, vowing to "kill" it during his presidential campaign.

The 12-nation partnership, which took the Barack Obama administration six years of hard work to get inked, was called a "disaster" by Trump.

In Trump's eyes, the TPP poses a danger to US manufacturing, and the outside world - immigrants and other non-domestic factors - has created many of America's problems, from unemployment to security threats.