The U.S. has used different approaches in its procurement agreements with regard to domestic purchasing requirements attached to federal funds. A recent posting examined U.S. treatment of “buy American” requirements that apply to federal government
The U.S. lacks the mechanism for comprehensive sub-federal coverage in TTIP. As noted in an earlier posting, one of top priorities of the European Union’s (EU) in the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is expansion
Canada and the EU are exchanging greater access to their respective government procurement markets than either has given to the United States. On October 18, 2013, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso