The United States and the European Union have issued proposals on the scope of their planned trade negotiations that reveal significant differences. On January 12, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published negotiating objectives that call for a
A paper examines the prospects for increasing the membership of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement beyond countries such as China and Russia with commitments to join the GPA. It contrasts the role of bilateral and regional trade agreements (RTAs) in
A Djaghe white paper on Public-Private Partnerships examines public-private partnerships (PPPs) generally, as well as their treatment under international trade agreements. It compiles eight posts from Perspectives on Trade that address this topic.
On May 2, Greenpeace published online a number of leaked negotiating documents from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The documents are not dated, but most likely do not reflect the results of the 13th round of negotiations, which
On January 29th, the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, proposed a new tool that would allow it to penalize countries that apply restrictive procurement practices that discriminate against EU businesses. With the new regulation,
Book Release: On September 29, a new book on the Transatlantic Trade and investment Partnership (TTIP) — Rule-Makers or Rule-Takers? Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — will be presented at an event at Johns Hopkins
Over the past several months, posts (listed below) have noted the publication of a number of papers as part of the “TTIP in the Balance” project, jointly organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the Center for Transatlantic Relations
Regulatory cooperation in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is the subject of a newly published paper: This time it’s different: Turbo-charging regulatory cooperation in TTIP. In the paper, Peter Chase and Jacques
A recently published paper asserts that progress in agriculture and food issues in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will depend largely on the level of ambition in the negotiations as a whole. It argues for negotiation of “a
Two newly published papers examine the pros and cons of including investment protections in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Transatlantic Investment Treaty Protection by Lauge Poulsen, Jonathan Bonnitcha and Jason Yackee