U.S., EU Remain At Odds Over Maximum Tariff Phaseout Periods In TTIP
The United States in the February round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations made clear it would not agree to a European Commission request that all industrial goods tariffs in a category without a defined phaseout be eliminated in seven years. The U.S. said it could only do so if that also applied to the agriculture tariffs in that category, according to a leaked document dated March 2016 on the state of play of the negotiations. The...