TTIP Negotiators Create Joint Text On Regulatory Cooperation, Discuss New TBT Proposal

NEW YORK -- U.S. and EU negotiators at the close of the ninth round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks held here indicated they had made progress on the regulatory aspect of the initiative in two key areas, with both sides creating a "consolidated text" on horizontal regulatory cooperation and the U.S. tabling a new proposal on technical barriers to trade (TBT). Ignacio Garcia Bercero, the EU’s lead negotiator in the TTIP talks, during a press conference Friday...