President elect Donal Trump has been putting together his transitional advisory team. The advisors he chose largely reflect views Mr Trump himself aired throughout his election campaign. We have: one Republican calling for NAFTA renegotiation, a steel magnate irate about China, and an economist accusing China of all ills, …
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De Gucht: TTIP is dead
Former EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht, who launched the transatlantic TTIP negotiations in 2013, said “TTIP, at least for the time being, is dead”. This is in reaction to the election of Donald Trump to become the 45th US president of the United States, and ahead of gathering …
Quick take: So it’s Trump
There will be a lot of ink shed on what a Trump presidency means for US trade policy, for TPP, and, in Europe, for TTIP. The fact is: we do not know. In the short term all these projects will not likely move ahead. More fundamentally, trade policy might be …
Blog: What if it’s Trump – and what if it isn’t?
There are two must-read papers for European (and other) trading partners of the United States while we wait, transfixed, for the result of the most fateful presidential elections in our time: the Peterson Institute’s Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign and Richard Katz’s Is the TPP Making the United …
EU should engage on data flows in TTIP to avoid WTO challenge, argues new legal study
TTIP: Oettinger in conciliatory mode on digital
The Commission’s Commissioner in charge of the digital economy Günther Oettinger, and famed for erring on the defensive side when it comes to handling US digital firms and shield German telecommunications champions from their market dominance, has come back from a trip to the United States with a few conciliatory …
Negotiators openly drop aim of concluding TTIP in 2016
Negotiators on both sides of the Atlantic have clearly given up on the idea of concluding TTIP talks this year, despite progress achieved on the technical aspects of the negotiations.
Next steps after Bratislava trade ministers meeting
French business says stopping TTIP talks would be “an act of extreme gravity”
Twelve French business federations have called for continuation of TTIP negotiations ahead of a crucial trade ministers meeting held in Bratislava, Slovakia, today. The move comes in reaction to declarations by French secretary of state in charge of trade, Matthias Fekl, that he would request a halt to the negotiations, and for a …
Bratislava trade meeting: no major decision expected on dumping and China MES
The key priority of trade ministers gathering at Bratislava on Friday (23 September) will be to garner sufficient support from member states to authorise the signature of CETA next month at a bilateral EU-Canada summit.
