Accounting for 23 percent of GDP worldwide, the United States has dominated the global economy for over 70 years. However, the US attitude towards trade policy has changed significantly since the new administration took office. President Donald Trump has removed the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), slowed the progress of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and called into question the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
With these notable changes in policies, the United States is no longer situated at the forefront of international trade, and in its absence the European Union has stepped in.
US President Donald Trump has often become a target of ire for his controversial policy statements. But South Asia, including Nepal, may find a reason to cheer if he sticks to his campaign promise of withdrawing the US from two major free-trade pacts--referred to as TPP and TTIP--and imposing high tariff on goods imported from China and Mexico.
Wirtschaftsministerin Brigitte Zypries hofft, dass der Freihandel trotz Donald Trump überlebt. Sie will selbstbewusst mit den Amerikanern verhandeln. Droht aber auch mit einer besonderen Erinnerung.
After decades of steadily increasing globalisation, trade liberalisation has slowed to a standstill. In the United States, Congress has delayed ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) indefinitely. And negotiations around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have ground to a halt.
New Docs reveal trade deal negotiations have gone 'very far from legitimate trade concerns into the territory of a sweeping deregulatory political agenda.'
Zwölf Staaten aus Asien und Amerika beschließen heute ihr Freihandelsabkommen. Die Lehre für Europa? Wachsam bleiben bei den TTIP-Verhandlungen mit den USA.
Fünf Jahre dauerten die Verhandlungen - nun haben Vertreter von zwölf Pazifik-Anrainerstaaten Staaten in Neuseeland den Transpazifischen Freihandelspakt TPP unterzeichnet. Die Feierlichkeiten wurden von Protesten Tausender Globalisierungskritiker begleitet.
WikiLeaks releases today the "Investment Chapter" from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement.The TPP Investment Chapter, published today, is dated 20 January 2015. The document is classified and supposed to be kept secret for four years after the entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement is reached, for four years from the close of the negotiations.
(In englischer Sprache) - Ein weiterer Abbau von weltweiten Handelshemmnissen steht an oberster Stelle von Obamas Agenda. Dieser Artikel berichtet über das Engagement der Pharmaindustrie in den USA und dem Wunsch, ihre Produkte in noch unerschlossenen Regionen dieser Welt verbreiten und etablieren zu wollen.
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