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U.S., EU Remain At Odds Over Maximum Tariff Phaseout Periods In TTIP

May 3, 2016 at 3:24 PM
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...


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