Business Community Grows Skeptical As TTIP Progress Remains Elusive

The trans-Atlantic business community is becoming increasingly skeptical of the benefits it could reap under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal as U.S. and EU negotiators last week in Brussels failed to make tangible progress on services market access. Services was also a focal point of a July 26 meeting between EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, but that meeting did not produce a breakthrough on the issue. EU business groups maintain that the...