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Data: 10/10/2014
Trade Newsletter - Weekly digest
EU Trade News **Update**: EU-US trade talks
Seventh round of TTIP talks takes place in US
A seventh round of EU-US negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) took place in Chevy Chase, Maryland from 29 September to 3 October. Negotiators discussed the regulatory elements and rules pillar of TTIP, and services.
Discussions on the regulatory elements covered:
• horizontal disciplines - regulatory coherence, technical barriers to trade (TBT) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures); and
• specific sectors identified in previous rounds, such as pharmaceuticals, cars, chemicals and engineering.
Talks on the rules pillar of the agreement looked in particular at:
• energy and raw materials
• customs and trade facilitation
• intellectual property rights (IPR), and
• small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Amongst the issues on the table at the next round will be trade and sustainable development, including labour rights and environmental protection. Before the round negotiators will hold regular video conferences to discuss technical details relating to this part of the agreement.
Read the EU Chief TTIP Negotiator's remarks to the press
Disclosure of the TTIP negotiation mandate
The Council of the EU today published the negotiating directives for talks on an EU-US trade agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnerships (TTIP). The European Commission is negotiating the agreement on the basis of negotiating directives issued by the Council in June 2013. It consults governments, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and civil society throughout the process. The talks started in July 2013 and seven rounds of negotiations have been completed so far.
Read the mandate
Commissioner De Gucht's website
List of speeches by Commissioner De Gucht
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