Trade & Tariffs

Despite Stinging Setback, Controversial Trade Bill Not Dead Yet

Atlantic Council’s Jason Marczak sees chance TPA may still squeak through Congress With the House of Representatives set to hold a do-over vote by June 16 on a worker retraining program – the Trade Adjustment Act (TAA) – whose defeat has stalled US President Barack Obama’s entire free-trade agenda, there’s a glimmer of hope that […]

TTIP Action – June 2

By Global Business & Economics Program

European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström Speeches & Official Announcements National Parliaments: Vital for Trade and TTIP “We have no intention of lowering regulatory protections or of giving companies a veto over our future EU or Member States’ policy space and actions. I am 100 percent sure that these things would not pass the European […]

TTIP Action | May 28

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The European Parliament in Strasbourg Speeches & Official Announcements TTIP: More US Market Access, Reform Investment Protection, Retain EU Standards Members of the EP Trade Committee voted on draft recommendations to the negotiators of the EU-US trade deal on Thursday, approving them in committee by 28 votes to 13 with no abstentions. They noted that […]

The Leadership Gap in the West

By Julianne Smith, Berlin Policy Journal

The West seems to have forgotten, though, that it did not come to be the architect of the global system in the 1940s and 1950s by avoiding risk and relying on conventional approaches.

TTIP Action | May 21

By Global Business & Economics Program

TPA cleared a major hurdle in the Republican-controlled Senate today, with a 62-38 vote ending debate on the bill and moving it toward a final vote in the House. Yesterday, the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program bid farewell to the “founding father” of TTIP Action, Garrett Workman, Associate Director at the Global Business […]

TTIP Action | May 19

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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on CNN’s State of the Union with Brianna Keilar Speeches & Official Announcements Ryan on State of the Union: For ‘More Jobs and Better Wages,’ We Need Trade “The other part is there’s going to be 3.2 billion people in the middle class by Asia by the […]

The Strategic Imperative of TTIP

By Jiří Šedivý, Project Syndicate

As negotiations between the European Union and the United States over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) move toward a final agreement, opponents of the proposed pact are becoming more vocal.

TTIP Action | May 14

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Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci and European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström hold a press conference following their meeting at the European Commission in Brussels, on May 12, 2015 Speeches & Official Announcements EU Trade Policy: Driven by People’s Needs, Responding to their Concerns “TTIP will help us strengthen our ties in order to make […]

TTIP Action | May 12

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President Obama Visited Nike’s Headquarters in Beverton, Oregon to talk trade last Friday. Speeches & Official Announcements Remarks by the President on Trade ” We can’t stand on the beaches and stop the global economy at our shores. We’ve got to harness it on our terms. This century is built for us. It’s about innovation. […]