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Workshops - What next after the US withdrawal from the TPP? - 08-11-2017 - Committee on International Trade 29-01-2018 04:11 PM CET The INTA Committee held a workshop discussing with distinguished academics from the EU, the US and Asia the implications of the US withdrawal from TPP for the TPP countries, the Pacific region and the EU. The debate allowed to shed more light on possible future scenarios and the ramifications of this US decision for EU trading partners as well as its impact on the EU's own trading agenda. Twelve Asia-Pacific countries - Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Singapore, the US and Vietnam - concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in late 2015. It was seen as a landmark free trade arrangement, similar to the EU's new-generation FTAs. On his first day in the office, in January 2017, President Donald Trump decided to withdraw the US from the TPP. Location : Brussels Further information Programme Text of the Study by the DG EXPO Policy Department: What next after the US withdrawal from the TPP? Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Workshops - Anti-corruption provisions in EU Free Trade and Investment Agreements - 24-01-2018 - Committee on International Trade 29-01-2018 04:05 PM CET Committee on International Trade in co-operation with the DG EXPO Policy Department organized a workshop on "Anti-corruption provisions in EU free trade and investment agreements: Delivering on clean trade" Location : Brussels Further information Programme Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Hearings - Trade Policy Day - 22-11-2017 - Committee on International Trade 29-01-2018 03:54 PM CET INTA held its second "Trade Policy Day". Two years after the adoption of the Commission`s new trade and investment strategy entitled "Trade for all" and only two months after the presentation of the Commission´s midterm review of the Trade-for-all-strategy, the aim of the Trade Policy Day was to analyse and discuss with high-level guests, stakeholders and the civil society the state of play of the Union`s Common Commercial Policy (CCP) and analyse the legitimacy of trade policy. Further information Programme Commission´s Trade-for-all-strategy Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Hearings - Trade Related Aspects of Global Economic Governance - 11-10-2017 - Committee on International Trade 29-01-2018 03:48 PM CET Three months after the 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg, INTA held a public hearing to discuss with different experts, stakeholders and representatives of international organisations the Trade related aspects of global economic governance. The European Union, via its institutions and Member States, is participating in various standard- setting fora in the field of international trade and external economy in order to stabilize and strengthen the global economic system. However, decisions are often taken in informal international bodies where executives from officials' up to leaders' level meet. The decision-making procedure sometimes lacks a meaningful accountability mechanisms. By holding a public hearing on the matter INTA is contributing to strengthen the parliamentary oversight of global economic governance. Location : Brussels Programme Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP QUESTIONS? STAY CONNECTED  Contact Us |   This email was sent on behalf of the European Parliament · Bât. Altiero Spinelli · 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60 · B-1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels  · Belgium · Phone: +32(0)2 28 42111