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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations
2013-11-21
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), in collaboration with the US Embassy in Stockholm and the National Board of Trade, invite you to a seminar on the new US-EU trade and investment partnership agreement currently being negotiated. How are the negotiations proceeding, what are the big challenges - and what is this new partnership really about?
In the coming weeks, the United States and the European Union will hold the second round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. The overall ambition of these negotiations is to reduce most of the trade barriers across the Atlantic, open services, spur innovation, and align and lift regulatory standards. If the partnership becomes a reality it could have great impact on the United States as well as the European Union’s economies. At the same time, there are many challenges ahead and there are also those who are concerned about the consequences for trade globally of such an agreement.
The seminar will look at what this partnership would mean and why it is important for the EU and the US. How does the EU negotiate and what is the room for manoeuvre for the US delegation? What are the most difficult topics? Has the government shutdown in the US impacted on the process?
Speakers:
András Simonyi, Ambassador and Managing Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington.
Anna Folkesson, Trade Policy Adviser, Department for Trade Agreements and Technical Rules at the National Board of Trade.
Magnus Rydén, Department for International Trade Policy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Date: Thursday November 21, 2013 Time: 16.00-17.30. Registration and coffee from 15.30. Location: The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Drottning Kristinas väg 37, Stockholm. Registration: http://www.ui.positionett.se/tillfalle.php?id=1138 Seminar fee: Free of charge Language: English
The discussion will be moderated by Jan Joel Andersson, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the North America Program at UI.
The seminar is part of a seminar series on the new Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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On 13 Nov 2013, at 20:01 , Linus Nordberg linus@nordberg.se wrote:
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013. The chapter published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents. Significantly, the released text includes the negotiation positions and disagreements between all 12 prospective member states.
The TPP is the forerunner to the equally secret US-EU pact TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), for which President Obama initiated US-EU negotiations in January 2013. Together, the TPP and TTIP will cover more than 60 per cent of global GDP.
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