Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: An Overview

Ionela Bălţătescu

Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global Economics, 2014, vol. 6, issue 4

Abstract: The article covers a short overview of EU-USA trade agreement: (a) the main advocates of the treaty and also the main lobby groups involved in the negotiation of the EU-USA trade agreement; (c) the estimated economic impact of signing the EU-USA trade agreement, according to most important studies that assess the benefits and risks of signing the treaty (e.g. studies realized by the Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR, Centre for Prospective Studies and International Information CEPII, Bertelsmann Foundation etc.); (b) the key issues approached during the negotiation process; (d) geostrategic implications; (e) criticisms and pros and cons according to economic analysts, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), lobby groups and other types of organizations.

Keywords: EU-USA trade agreement; international trade; free trade agreement; barriers to trade; transnational corporations; investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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