News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Trump or no Trump, TTIP or no TTIP: when regulators want to talk, they talk. This is what the ‘covered agreement’ on insurance and reinsurance between the US and EU formally signed today (21 September 2017) reveals. The move comes as formal and informal exchanges between EU and US officials …
This new Borderlex in-depth report offers an overview of where TiSA appears to be heading less than two months ahead of the trade in services negotiations’ expected conclusion. For PRO subscribers only.
The EU has made public its proposals for the “administrative and institutional provisions” and for the dispute settlement chapter of the Trade in Services Agreement currently under negotiation among 23 WTO members. A comparison between the published document, which was tabled in late September during the last negotiation round and …
Wikileaks has leaked five negotiation texts pertaining to the Trade in Services Agreement process. The texts bear June and July 2016 dates and were presumably discussed during last round of negotiations in July in Geneva. The revealed texts are: the consolidated version of the core text of TiSA; an EU 30-page …
A new report published by the German Development Institute calls on TiSA parties to pay closer attention to ensuring developing countries can join later and are not negatively affected by the deal.
The EU is running late in tabling its text on data flows in TiSA due to internal Commission wranglings over data privacy.
The EU Commission released a report on the last round of TiSA negotiations that took place early July in Geneva. The report reveals that the contours of TiSA are clearly taking shape. However, a read in between the lines shows that fundamental differences persist on a variety of topics. The …
USTR is stepping up its offensive moves to get the interests of its competitive digital industry heard in international trade talks. The EU has already been feeling the heat in TiSA and TTIP as transatlantic negotiations move from Geneva to Brussels this week. New services are among the key issues …
Services groups see insufficient progress in e-commerce, telecommunications, finance, delivery services and movement of professionals in TiSA as parties aim towards endgame in 2016. ID.
Ahead of coming debates in the European Parliament on TiSA, the legislature’s research service has published a state of play in the now three-year-old services trade negotiations in Geneva. A read-through by Iana Dreyer.
