The United States continued to be the European Union’s top trading partner in 2015, registering €619 billion or 18 percent of total EU trade in goods. China ranked second, with €521 billion or 15 percent of total EU trade in goods. Both the U.S. and China were well ahead of Switzerland and Russia, which ranked third and fourth for merchandise trade with the European Union. The U.S. is the EU’s number one destination for exports and ranks second for imports...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will travel to Berlin and Paris next week to discuss areas of mutual interest between the European and American agricultural sectors. In Berlin, Vilsack will meet with German officials as well as farmers about rural economic development opportunities and to underscore the importance of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). He will then lead the U.S. delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Meeting of Agriculture Ministers, which is being held in...

The European Commission today publishes further documents from the ongoing negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), in line with its commitment to enhanced transparency in the ongoing trade negotiations with the United States. The documents made public today include the recent EU proposal on regulatory cooperation which the Commission submitted to the United States during the last round of talks in February. Regulatory cooperation is an innovative part and a key pillar of TTIP. Regulatory cooperation with the...

The European Commission has approved its proposal for a new and transparent system for resolving disputes between investors and states – the Investment Court System. This new system would replace the existing investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism in all ongoing and future EU investment negotiations, including the EU-US talks on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The proposal for an Investment Court System builds on the substantial input received from the European Parliament, Member States, national parliaments and stakeholders...

The European Union’s Commission for Trade, Cecilia Malmström is in Washington D.C., to stress the importance of deep cooperation between the European Union and the United States on trade issues. In a speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, she argued that on both sides of the Atlantic the long consensus around open markets was now the subject of intense debate. Governments needed to respond to concerns raised in those debates by making trade policy more economically effective and...

The talks will help pave the way for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, between the EU and the US. Negotiators will discuss all three main parts of the agreement, namely market access, regulatory cooperation, and rules. Stakeholder outreach – Wednesday 24 February As in previous rounds, TTIP negotiators will spend a day hearing from, and then debriefing, a wide range of stakeholders. 1. Stakeholder presentations event (Morning) Stakeholders will have the opportunity to explain their views on TTIP related-issues...