Environmental campaigners are "extremely concerned" that a new trade deal involving the US could weaken attempts to end shark finning.
The first steps to outlaw the practice were agreed at a meeting in Bangkok last March.
But the leaked draft text of the new deal involving 12 Pacific countries has no binding commitment to curb finning.
The long-running negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement are due to conclude in April.
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