In a letter to trade ambassadors in Geneva, business groups have called on negotiators to ensure the Trade in Services Agreement negotiations can resume as quickly as possible. Negotiators buried their hatchets in the days following the election of Donald Trump to become the next US president. Washington lost …
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In brief – TiSA ministerial meeting cancelled
TiSA negotiators have reportedly given up on concluding negotiations this year. Ambassadors in Geneva decided to cancel a planned round of final talks late November and a ministerial meeting on 5 & 6 December where the deal was to be sealed. It appears that the election of Donald Trump …
Malmström determined to table data flow text in TiSA
During a hearing at the European Parliament on Thursday (17 November 2016), trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström outlined her strategy to include digital issues in the EU’s trade policy, stressing work in the World Trade Organization and the need to tackle data flows in trade agreements. The Commission is determined to …
TiSA conclusion in balance as France blocs data flow language
“France is blocking everything”, a source close to the Trade in Services Agreement talks told Borderlex. “I fear it is dead”. The early December deadline the 23 TiSA parties set themselves for a political conclusion of the deal appears unattainable. Several issues are coming into play: the political climate in the US …
In-depth: How TiSA is shaping up
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.
TiSA parties toying with idea of doing deal without EU
The EU’s paralysis over trade policy, its snail-paced moves to table an offer on data flows in the TiSA talks (the EU has still not tabled one), and Brussels’ continued refusal to ban new restrictions on future yet unknown ‘new services’ is leading some of its counterparts in the ongoing services talks to …
EU should engage on data flows in TTIP to avoid WTO challenge, argues new legal study
TiSA: EU to table final market access offer
The last weeks of Trade in Services Agreement negotiations are ahead of us. Today (Friday 21 October) is the deadline for all parties to the talks to table their final market access offer. All eyes are on the EU’s offer, as all member have found Brussels’ last offer tabled in 2015 very …
TiSA: dispute settlement and institutional settings appear – through EU prism
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 …
In brief – TiSA negotiators aim for conclusion in December 2016
TiSA negotiators reported good progress in a marathon negotiation round that finished on 26 September. Michael Punke, the US’s chief negotiator said he hoped TiSA could be adopted early December. More on TiSA in the coming weeks. Next steps: 21 October 2016: deadline for tabling new market access offers 6-18 …
