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

May 5, 2016 at 7:40 PM
The United States, in the February round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership 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 from March on the state of play of the negotiations. The document was...


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