USTR Continues Full Court Press with TPP, TTIP Talks This Week
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is continuing its recent offensive with several high-level Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks this week, as well as testimony from USTR Michael Froman to Congress, it said in a…
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weekly update (here). Assistant USTR for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Barbara Weisel, will travel to New York City on Jan. 26 to partake in TPP chief negotiator talks. Froman will then testify on Jan. 28 before the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees for hearings scheduled to cover broad U.S. trade policy. The next day, Acting Deputy USTR Wendy Cutler will meet in Washington with top Japanese trade negotiator Takeo Mori on auto trade rules in a final TPP deal. To wrap up the week, Froman will also meet separately with European Parliament Committee on International Trade Chairman Bernd Lange and Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkēvičs.