Focus on: Risks and Opportunities for the EU Agri-Food Sector in a Possible EU-US Trade Agreement
Briefing
16-03-2015
This Briefing summarises the conclusions of a study on ‘Risks and Opportunities for the EU Agri-Food Sector in a Possible EU-US Trade Agreement’ prepared by an international team of researchers for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament. On 14 June 2013, the Council adopted a mandate for the European Commission to negotiate a trade and investment agreement with the United States (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP). On 17 June 2013, at the G8 summit in Lough Erne (United Kingdom), Presidents Van Rompuy, Barroso and Obama officially launched the bilateral negotiations. The latest Round of negotiations (7th) took place between 29 September and 3 October 2014.
Briefing
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- agri-foodstuffs
- agri-foodstuffs
- AGRI-FOODSTUFFS
- agricultural trade
- America
- common commercial policy
- economic analysis
- economic analysis
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- export (EU)
- food standard
- GEOGRAPHY
- health
- import (EU)
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- international trade
- marketing
- negotiation of an agreement (EU)
- political geography
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- trade
- TRADE
- trade agreement (EU)
- trade policy
- trade restriction
- trade statistics
- United States
- world organisations
- World Trade Organisation