EU AND US PUSH FOR TTIP DEAL THIS YEAR, DESPITE ENDURING DIFFERENCES
July 1st, 2016
DISAGREEMENTS over the meat sector are holding up a deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States for a comprehensive, ambitious Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal by end 2016. Entrenched attitudes concerning a risk- (EU) or science-based (US) approach to meat trade will make this difficult to achieve.
“There are agricultural sectors, such as meats, where the EU maintains a competitiveness gap vis-à-vis US producers,” a European Commission directorate general for trade spokesperson told GlobalMeatNews ...
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