NZ Trade Minister Todd McClay will meet his Australian counterpart in Sydney in a bid to salvage the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Mr McClay and Australia's Trade and Investment Minister Steven Ciobo will discuss bilateral and regional trade issues of significance to both countries this year."Australia's our closest ally, particularly when it comes to trade, and it's an opportunity for us to take stock of exactly where each side sits as far as TPP is concerned and to start exploring whether there is any merit in seeing whether the deal might go ahead minus the US," Mr McClay said.Despite the United States' recent decision to pull out of the agreement a number of other countries, including Australia, had indicated their interest in reviving it."This meeting will be an important opportunity…