Regulatory cooperation divides TTIP stakeholders

Industry is excited about its potential but legislators fear it will strip them of their lawmaking powers

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Brian Beary
24 avril 2015 à 0h50

The issue of whether to align EU and US regulations to make trade easier was at the fore at the ninth round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks, held during the fourth week of April at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. In the stakeholders' session, on 23 April, legislators raised alarm bells over plans to create a transatlantic body to screen legislative proposals before they are enacted. “This is a top-down plan that will interfere…

Congress on fast track

Back in Washington, after years of inaction on trade, there has been rapid movement, with the Senate Finance Committee adopting, on 22 April in a 20-6 vote, a Trade Promotion Authority bill. This proposal would let the president submit a trade pact like TTIP to Congress for a simple up-or-down vote. The bill is co-sponsored by the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Finance Committee and the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. But opponents of free trade pacts are busy rallying their troops in a bid to persuade enough lawmakers on Capitol Hill – especially Democrats – to vote down the bill.
par Brian Beary

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