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The TAFTA | TTIP and Agriculture: Making or Breaking the Tackling of Global Food and Environmental Challenges?
Written by Gerry Alons
Abstract: The recently commenced negotiations on a transatlantic free trade area (TAFTA | TTIP) are likely to have an impact on transatlantic and global agricultural and environmental regulation. The potential for developing a global trade regime that is able to face the pressing global food and environmental challenges of […]
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TAFTA | TTIP in the Light of the Modern Digital Age and its Significance for the Future of the ICT Industry
Written by Joachim Bühler
Abstract: The negotiations for the TAFTA I TTIP agreement encompass a broad spectrum of issues. Because of the far-reaching importance of ICT topics, the TAFTA I TTIP must include a Digital Agenda. BITKOM welcomes the High Level Working Group’s (HLWG) proposals and emphasizes the imperative to pay special attention to […]
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The Strategic Implications of TAFTA/TTIP: Will it Engage or Contain China?
Written by Vasilis Trigkas
Abstract: As China is moving up the value chain, both the EU and the US have seen their export shares declining in markets that they have traditionally dominated. This quantitative and qualitative evolution of Chinese exports has been to some extent attributed to China’s mercantilist national industrial policy and its […]
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Why the TAFTA | TTIP will not Live Up to its Promises
Written by Ferdi De Ville
Abstract: Negotiations on a Transatlantic Free Trade Area, also known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TAFTA | TTIP) have been officially launched in July 2013. This TAFTA | TTIP is sold by the European Commission with two main arguments and two additional points to reassure potential opponents. In the first category there […]
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A Transatlantic Partnership with Ripples Across the Oceans: What Does Africa Stand to Gain or Lose?
Written by Philani Mthembu
Abstract: The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) – currently known as Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – may be negotiated in Brussels and Washington, but the ripples will be felt throughout the global political and economic landscape. Of particular concern to developing countries and Africa in particular is the potential […]
