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TTIP
"We've launched this strange animal called TTIP ['tee tip']," EU Ambassador to the US JoIao Vale de Almeida said. "This is a game-changer. As I like to say, this is the mother of all free trade areas."
China has raised concerns about European Union plans to negotiate an ambitious free-trade deal with the United States, fearing it is a protectionist move, a senior EU official said on Tuesday.
Trade officials on both sides of the Atlantic say there is a short "political window" to negotiate a free-trade agreement between the United States and European Union.
European Union lawmakers have backed French demands to exempt culture from a proposed free-trade pact between Europe and the United States, keeping Paris on side and raising the chances that the talks can start on time.
European Union lawmakers have voted in favor of starting talks on a wide-ranging free trade agreement with the United States.
The United States and the UK aim to include financial services in a proposed free-trade agreement between Washington and the 27-nation European Union, the British ambassador to the United States said on Thursday.
France said on Thursday it would block proposed negotiations on a free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States unless cultural sectors, such as television and radio, were excluded from the talks.
US and EU business leaders meet in Dublin Castle today, in parallel to a meeting of EU trade ministers, in an effort to advance talks towards a major new transatlantic trade deal.
Turkish business world to discuss proposals for Turkey in reaction to an Free Trade Agreement between EU & US
After years spent cautiously eyeing each other across the Atlantic, the EU and the US appear ready to improve their trade ties. But, a first meeting has revealed how difficult that may be.
