EU Market Access Offer Makes Explicit Linkages To Regulatory Outcomes

摘要

The European Commission market access offer submitted to the United States this week explicitly conditions the elimination of tariffs in certain sectors and product categories upon satisfactory progress in resolving relevant non-tariff barriers in the regulatory aspect of the U.S.-EU free trade talks and on reciprocal tariff elimination by the U.S. The EU makes the link to the regulatory part of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in a cover letter attached to the roughly 300-page tariff offer, which includes some 9,000 tariff lines at the eight-digit level, according to informed sources. But it does not specify exactly which regulatory barriers it is targeting, they said.