TTIP Leak: U.S. Seeks To Expand TPP State-Owned Enterprise Definition

The United States and European Union could be close to agreement on the definition of state-owned enterprises under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, with both sides seeking to move away from the numerical definition included in the final version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to three experts on SOEs and the U.S.-EU negotiations who have reviewed the consolidated TTIP text leaked Monday (May 2). But the two sides remain apart on how to address sub-central governments in the SOE...