№36: Trade Agreements across the Atlantic: What Lessons from CETA for TTIP?
№36: Trade Agreements across the Atlantic: What Lessons from CETA for TTIP?

Author(s): Maya Rostowska
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Governance, Economic policy, International relations/trade, Geopolitics
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Trade and investment agreements; European Union; Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA); Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); trans-Atlantic cooperation;
Summary/Abstract: Negotiations are ongoing for two of the most significant trade and investment agreements that the European Union has ever entered into. Both the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the U.S. are set to be ambitious agreements, and are already causing controversy beyond the limits of the negotiating table. Given that the CETA talks are more advanced, they can provide some valuable and much-needed insight for TTIP, both in terms of process and substance. Nevertheless there are some issues, linked to the heftier geopolitical weight of TTIP, that CETA cannot help resolve.

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