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
The current U.S. and EU commitments on government procurement will be the basis for the procurement negotiations in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. In July 2013, the United States and the European Union (EU) commenced negotiations of the