Since 1974 the United States Congress has enacted several Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) acts to ensure speedy ratification of trade agreements in the United States, while maintaining a congressional hold on the objectives to be pursued by US negotiators. TPA defines the conditions and...

Negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States reached their ninth round in New York in April 2015. Discussions have covered a broad range of topics, and substantial work undertaken, in particular on the chapters of the...

Liberalisation of financial services is a controversial chapter in the negotiations towards a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The financial crisis raised concern that trade liberalisation could have an adverse effect on the regulatory power of sovereign states. This...