G7 Leaders Seek to Speed Up Work on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

摘要

Leaders at the G7 meeting in Germany said June 8 that they will "immediately accelerate work" on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TOP) negotiations and will "make every effort" to complete the 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as soon as possible, according to their summit declaration. "We will immediately accelerate work on all TTIP issues, ensuring progress in all the elements of the negotiations, with the goal of finalizing understandings on the outline of an agreement as soon as possible, preferably by the end of this year," the document stated.