Two-Day EU Conference: Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP)

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, MARC Pavilion

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Feb. 16-17, 2017
Two-Day EU Conference on Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP):
Implementations and Challenges

While the debate surrounding the TTIP is contentious in Europe, in the U.S. there exists little information or discussion outside a small policy-circle, so that the general public and even the business or policy sectors are in need of a balanced analysis. From mutual tariffs and standards to dispute settlement, a number of trade policy issues need to be resolved and publicly justified. TTIP critics question its over-reaching structures, its dispute settlement mechanism that gives too much power to the private sector, the risk of lowest common denominator on hard-fought standards, or contest the secrecy of negotiations. Proponents argue that TTIP could stimulate the relatively stagnant transatlantic economies, create additional jobs and jointly strengthen Western economic power in the world. Since the negotiation of the TTIP takes longer than expected, a review of the regulatory, commercial and political impact is required. We aim to move beyond the often discussed obstacles and trade-offs in order to understand, in a more scholarly way, the ways in which different cultural attitudes toward trade, globalization, and environmental standards come into play in these negotiations. How do Americans and European view free trade? How do actors on both sides of the Atlantic imagine the role of the government in these regulatory processes? We plan to involve the local European Chambers of Businesses and the consular community.

Proposed Panels:

  • 1. Transatlantic views on trade and politics (Historical and Cultural)
  • 2. TTIP: Obstacles and Opportunities (Standards, Dispute Settlement, etc.)
  • 3. Counsular Roundtable on Transnational Economic Relations
  • 4. TTIP in a global context (what does it mean for CETA, TPP? What role does it play in EU Foreign Policy?)

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