EU and US conclude first round of TTIP negotiations in Washington

EU News 337/2013

IP/13/691
Brussels, 12 July 2013

The first week-long round of talks for an EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) comes to a closure today in Washington.

(…)

Working throughout the week, the negotiating groups have set out respective approaches and ambitions in as much as twenty various areas that the TTIP - the biggest bilateral trade and investment negotiation ever undertaken - is set to cover.  They included: market access for agricultural and industrial goods, government procurement, investment, energy and raw materials, regulatory issues, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, services, intellectual property rights, sustainable development, small- and medium-sized enterprises, dispute settlement, competition, customs/trade facilitation, and state-owned enterprises.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-691_en.htm?locale=en

• Tweet