EU View of U.S. Agricultural Trade Barriers
The U.S. and the EU have completed four rounds of negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement (FTA). Sanitary ...
TransAtlantic Trade & Investment Partnership
US Needs Trade Promotion Authority to Close Trade Deals
“Today in America……a farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest five-year stretch of farm exports in our history.” “And when ninety-eight percent of ...
TTIP Talks Ready to Accelerate
The U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks are ready to resume after a quiet time since the last meeting in mid-December. U.S. Tra...
Mr. President: Time to Lead the Dance of Trade
When I lifted the shade on my airplane window on a recent flight into Singapore, I could hardly believe my eyes. Below me, ships crowded the straits—too many to...
Constitutional Support for a Strong Trade Agenda
In the Declaration of Independence, American revolutionaries listed their grievances against the British king. Among his offenses, they said, was “cutting off o...
Slowing Down the Trade Policy Negotiating Process
The Obama Administration is pursuing an aggressive trade policy agenda by simultaneously trying to complete a twelve nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agre...
Regulatory Convergence in the TTIP
The second round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the U.S. were postpo...
The EU-US Trade Talks Represent an Opportunity to Change Minds on GM
There will be plenty of observers of the forthcoming EU/USA trade talks who will speculate as to the outcome with the GM factor being of major importance. Ma...
Now is the Time for an EU-US Free Trade Agreement
Corn flakes are one of the most popular breakfast foods in the world—and 15 years ago, Norway banned them. Technically, its government outlawed the importati...
U.S.-EU TTIP Negotiations Off to a Good Start
The first round of negotiations on the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement was more about process than product. ...