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What’s the use of a transatlantic free trade area? Jean Monnet Policy Brief 05/2014

Thede, Susanna (2013) What’s the use of a transatlantic free trade area? Jean Monnet Policy Brief 05/2014. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    For many of those who remember the hostile EU-US trade relations of the 1980’s and the various trade disputes that have emerged between these two trade partners since then, the opening of negotiations on a joint free trade area would be good news. Strengthened trade cooperation between the partners holds the promise of expanding their mutual exchange of goods and services, not the least by solving obstacles to integration on less transparent issues such as the extent to which product characteristics should be defined by their regional characteristics (e.g. can Budweiser be produced outside the Budweis region in the Czech Republic?).

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-US
    EU policies and themes > External relations > international trade
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > University of Malta, Institute for European Studies > Policy Briefs
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 06 Nov 2014 16:10
    Number of Pages: 4
    Last Modified: 06 Nov 2014 16:10
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/57169

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