20151009 - ttip

What is TTIP about?

The EU is negotiating a trade and investment deal with the US - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Contents

With TTIP, we want to help people and businesses large and small, by:

• opening up the US to EU firms
• helping cut red tape that firms face when exporting
• setting new rules to make it easier and fairer to export, import and invest overseas.

Impact

Europe currently faces big challenges, like:

• kick-starting our own economy
• responding to conflicts close to our borders
• adapting to other, emerging economies outside Europe
• maintaining our influence in the wider world.

An independent study and past EU trade agreements suggest TTIP would help, by:

• generating jobs and growth across the EU
• cutting prices when we shop and offering us more choice.

TTIP could also help us in the EU to:

• influence world trade rules
• project our values globally.

 http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ttip/about-ttip/
 http://www.albertoalemanno.eu/articles/the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip-and-parliamentary-regulatory-cooperation