7 October 2015 - The journey from Mike Froman's 12th-floor presidential suite to Andrew Robb's modest digs on the 58th can take as long as 10 minutes in the Westin Hotel – a gargantuan relic of the Atlanta Olympics, where the lifts go missing when most needed.

Over these dodgy conveyances, for three sleepless days, the two trade ministers shuttled up and down, engaged in a 10-round "arm wrestle". Robb was threatening to kill the "the biggest global trade deal in 20 years" rather than give ground on the crucial issue of pharmaceuticals.

"We held everything else up for this for 2½ days," Robb told Fairfax Media in a phone interview, while boarding a plane in Atlanta for a G20 meeting in Turkey.

"Froman and I got into an arm wrestle on this. We had 10 meetings in 2½ days."

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