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Obama-Rousseff Yields Procedural Agreement On Standards, ATEC Resumption

July 2, 2015 at 5:14 PM
President Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff this week announced new efforts to facilitate trade by increasing cooperation on standards-setting and international accreditation arrangements, and to hold a government-to-government meeting under the bilateral Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation (ATEC) before the end of the year. These two steps were announced after the June 30 meeting of the two leaders along with several other measures focused on enhancing communication between the two countries' bureaucracies. There were no major announcements of...

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