U.S., EU Launch 2nd Round of TTIP Negotiations
U.S. and European Union trade officials convened in Brussels on Nov. 11 to launch five days of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said Nov. 11. Negotiations will initially focus on investment…
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rules and trade in services, USTR said, while officials also plan to broach regulatory coherence, technical barriers to trade, sectoral approaches and sanitary and phytosanitary measures, among other topics. The next round of negotiations is scheduled to be held Dec. 16-20 in Washington, D.C. (see 13110409). Industry leaders pressed comprehensive tariff elimination in a final TTIP pact, along with possible increases to de minimis levels, during an Oct. 30 Senate Finance Committee hearing (see 13103107).