CIAO DATE: 08/2013
July 2013
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and US could be unprecedented in both scale and scope. It is critical that negotiators take advantage of the opportunity that the TTIP presents for the world’s two largest economies indirectly to craft state-of-the-art global standards for cross-border investment, particularly in the areas of forced localization measures, government influence and control, and investor-state dispute settlement.
Resource link: The global significance of transatlantic investment rules [PDF]