U.S. Trade in Services: Trends and Policy Issues

[Excerpt] This report provides background information and analysis on U.S. international trade in services. It analyzes policy issues before the United States, especially relating to negotiating international disciplines on trade in services and dealing complexities in measuring trade in services. The report also examines emerging issues and current and potential trade agreements, including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)

Controversies around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union and the United States have been in progress since 2013. The European Commission published the first document on the status of negotiations one year later. The main aim of this paper is to present TTIP as a very controversial agreement, both in the view of scholars and the international public. Negotiations behind closed doors, the growing democratic deficit, the investor-state dispute resolution mechanism (ISDS), and the European Citizens’ Initiative “Stop TTIP” are the most important issues in the public debate on the transatlantic agreement.Globalizacja a media i postprawda2jesień/zima 2017165365Refleksje. Pismo naukowe studentów i doktorantów WNPiD UA

CUSLI Expert Roundtable Report: CETA, TPP, TTIP, and the Canada-U.S. Trade Relationship

An Expert Panel discusses Canada-U.S. trade issues in the context of emerging international trade deals, multilateral trade agreements such as Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Governments need a more convincing narrative if they want to sway the public debate on TTIP

If successfully concluded, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would be the most ambitious free trade agreement in history. Dennis Novy writes that while the potential benefits from liberalised transatlantic trade are large, getting there will be an arduous process, with significant difficulties still to be overcome

Governments have to come up with much more convincing narratives and concrete examples if they want to sway the public debate on TTIP

If successfully concluded, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would be the most ambitious free trade agreement in history. Dennis Novy explains that while the potential benefits from liberalized transatlantic trade are large, getting there will be an arduous process and many difficulties will have to be overcome

THE TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a project of exceptional importance which opens a new stage in the globalization process. Given its historical significance, this construction causes numerous debates and controversies. This article attempts to draft a few reflections regarding the main elements, dimensions, orientations, the basis values, objectives and the relevant actors (economic, political, formal and informal) of this greatest bilateral trade agreement. We will attempt a decrypting, on the basis of press articles, of political discourse, and of different analyses and comments, what are the social and economic effects, what are the consequences on democracy of this market project

U.S. Foreign Trade in Services: Trends and U.S. Policy Challenges

[Excerpt] This report provides background information and analysis on U.S. foreign trade in services. The focus of the report is an analysis of the policy challenges that the United States confronts, especially the challenge of negotiating a set of international disciplines on trade in services and dealing with the complexity of measuring trade in services. The report also focuses on emerging issues and current negotiations, especially those pertaining to the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement

The EU proposal for an Investment Court System: what lessons can be learned from the Arab Investment Court?

The EU has presented a proposal to the US for an Investment Court system to resolve investor-state disputes under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This Perspective discusses the lessons that may be taken from the long-established Arab Investment Court in finalizing the design of the proposed Investment Court