International Standards: Past Free Trade Agreements and the Prospects in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Eliasson, Leif Johan

doi:10.1515/bjes-2015-0002

Abstract

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership represents a strategic vision of transatlantic relations, including job creation, global leadership, and establishing high international standards. This paper discusses how three recent bi-lateral and regional agreements, along with positions adopted in transatlantic negotiations, convey respective side's acceptable parameters, and how international standards are emerging from and disseminated through agreements involving the European Union and the United States

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