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The Indian Express
March 24, 2018
TTIP was, after all, really about dismantling trade barriers on both sides of the Atlantic and abolishing tariffs on the movement of goods. We all now know, for example, that the tax rate for cars shipped from Germany to the US is just 2.5 percent while that in the other direction is as high as ten percent. And it isÃâà...
EUobserver
March 23, 2018
But Europeans were clear that they would not engage in new free-trade discussions with the US, over a year after the failure of talks for a EU-US free trade agreement, TTIP. "A TTIP-like global negotiation, or even a TTIP-lite - only on tariffs - in these conditions, would be a mistake and an admission ofÃâà...
American Journal of Transportation
March 22, 2018
Yet, in some areas, the TTIP negotiations made progress that can be built upon. Beyond the hard decisions on standards and health and safety norms, a deal should focus on a few sectors such as car manufacturing, food and pharmaceuticals, which could deliver benefits to key Trump constituencies aheadÃâà...
Broadway World
March 22, 2018
Enjoy the slightly off kilter adventures of Gomez, Morticia, and their off center family. Music and very funny lyrics by Andrew Lippa. In this summer's TTIP version, Gomex is Brian Larios and Morticia is Jeul Perry. Wednesday is Paris Naster and Pugsley is Fritz Sullivan. Lurch the Butler is Mathew Koehler.
Deutsche Welle
March 22, 2018
You may not have heard from them for a while, the thousands upon thousands who marched across Germany with their "Stop TTIP!" banners. The envisioned Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — a free-trade pact between the EU and the US — was a great feast for such demonstrators,Ãâà...
The National Interest Online
March 22, 2018
The EU should push for the latter, and it should do so in the form of a renewal of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Despite any reluctance to engage with the bullying they feel is coming from the Trump administration right now, EU leaders should consider this option,Ãâà...
Yahoo Finance
March 15, 2018
“There are many people who are against TTIP but, no, we see that if we got that TTIP we could have avoided what is happening today. “I hope that this message will be given: no trade war but a new trade deal.” The new impetus for trade talks from the EU could put the bloc directly in competition with the UKÃâà...
Xinhua
March 14, 2018
BRUSSELS, March 14 (Xinhua) -- European Council President Donald Tusk on Wednesday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to restart EU-U.S. trade talks in order to bring down trade barriers on both sides rather than risking a trade war. "His proposal to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum isÃâà...
The Independent
March 12, 2018
If you thought TTIP was bad, a future UK-US trade deal could smuggle all those nasties back in, and probably with a larger chance of success. We're talking beef injected with growth hormones, chickens washed with chlorine and – most worrying of all – widespread use of antibiotics in agriculture, boostingÃâà...
The Independent
March 8, 2018
“The time of offering special privileges has long past.” Mr McDonnell said the Chancellor had also been wrong to raise Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP - the defunct deal between the EU and the US - as a potential model for what could be attained in the Brexit negotiations.
Business Insider
March 7, 2018
"The EU itself pursued ambitious financial services co-operation in its proposals for TTIP – which it described as a partnership that would be: 'more than a traditional free trade agreement'" Hammond said. However, Labour pointed out that TTIP negotiations had ultimately collapsed. "The Chancellor hasÃâà...
Cato Institute (blog)
March 7, 2018
In the context of the recently launced US-EU free trade talks (formally, the “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership,” or TTIP), commentators have noted that tariffs between the US and EU are low, and thus the key part of the talks will deal with so-called regulatory barriers to trade. An article in InsideÃâà...
EURACTIV
March 5, 2018
While much attention has been given to US withdrawal from the TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) equally concerning is the death of the TTIP (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) which would have created a free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union.
