House Trade Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on U.S.-EU Trade Relationship
The House Ways and Means Committee's Trade Subcommittee announced that it would hold a hearing on enhancing the U.S.-European Union (EU) trade relationship on July 27, 2010.
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The hearing will focus on: (1) potential issues presented by differences in approaches to regulatory standards on both a bilateral and multilateral basis; (2) ways to advance the World Trade Organizations’ (WTO) Doha Round of international trade negotiations; (3) opportunities for greater engagement between Congress and the European Parliament, particularly given the Parliament’s heightened role in European trade policy-making; and (4) ways to take advantage of existing structures, including the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), the WTO and Article 2 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty to promote economic collaboration.