NYT Does Serious Editorializing for TPP in News Section

A NYT piece analyzing White House efforts to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) began with the sentence:

"When President Obama defends the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a far-reaching agreement to tear down trade barriers between the United States and 11 other nations, he often argues it would cure the ills inflicted on American workers by trade pacts of the past, particularly the North American Free Trade Agreement."

The problem with this sentence is that the TPP is not obviously, "a far-...