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New Approaches to International Regulatory Cooperation: The Challenge of TTIP, TPP, and Mega-Regional Trade Agreements

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: International regulatory cooperation (IRC) has become a hot topic in recent years.President Obama has issued an executive order to prompt federal agencies to engage in IRC under oversight by the Office of Management and Budget 1 and has championed two highly important new IRC initiatives: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).These initiatives respond to basic global trends that pose fresh opportunities and challenges for domestic regulation and for IRC.These include the persistence, notwithstanding relatively low tariff levels, of behindthe-border regulatory and other impediments to trade and investment; controversy over whether these differences in national regulations are justified by differing national preferences or are unwarranted obstacles; unrealized opportunities to promote global integration of services and other sectors through global supply chains; relatively sluggish growth in Organization for

Source: Law and Contemporary Problems

Authors: Reeve T. Bull, Neysun A. Mahboubi, Richard B. Stewart, Jonathan B. Wiener

Institutions: Administrative Conference of the United States, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Duke University

Language: English

Topic: World Trade Organization Law

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2270833107

FWCI: 11.01

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Cited by: 13

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