EU and US mega deal sparks inflated emotions

20-09-2015 | | |
Daniel Rosario, European Commission's spokesperson for Agriculture and Rural Development, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, European Union chief negociator for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and Dan Mullaney, US TTIP chief negociator, deliver a press conference at the end of the 10th round of the TTIP negociations at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. If concluded, the TTIP would be the world's biggest trade deal, linking about 60 percent of the globe's economic output in a colossal market of 850 million consumers, creating a free-trade corridor from Hawaii to Lithuania.
Daniel Rosario, European Commission's spokesperson for Agriculture and Rural Development, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, European Union chief negociator for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and Dan Mullaney, US TTIP chief negociator, deliver a press conference at the end of the 10th round of the TTIP negociations at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. If concluded, the TTIP would be the world's biggest trade deal, linking about 60 percent of the globe's economic output in a colossal market of 850 million consumers, creating a free-trade corridor from Hawaii to Lithuania.
The EU and the US are negotiating a free trade and investment agreement. Negotiations are also about import tariffs but mainly about sanitary and phytosanitary standards. In this two-part series, World Poultry examines this deal which can have ?far-reaching consequences for agriculture. US President Barack Obama and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, announced a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) in June 2013. An agreement that has to simplify t


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