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

• Authors: Leif Johan Eliasson
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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

Keywords

EN

domestic preferences; investments; regulations; standards; transatlantic trade

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of European Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 05-18

Dates

online

2015-02-01

Contributors

author

Leif Johan Eliasson

• Department of Political Science, East Stroudsburg University 200 Prospect Street, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bjes-2015-0002