Dies ist eine HTML Version eines Anhanges der Informationsfreiheitsanfrage 'TTIP lobbying'.



Ref. Ares(2017)3665888 - 20/07/2017

very fast in the last years, cheese +200% in 2013, 100 million wine drinkers in U.S. Bought 1.7 bn $ Italian wine. IT 
has competitive SMEs that will benefit a lot, e.g. In aerospace. GI, GMOs are difficult subjects. Procurement: we 
cannot change the constitution and force States, but we encourage them very much e.g. 37 states signed up to GPA. 
Senate approved TPA, confident in the House. On energy, TTIP as an FTA will make exports easier but in practice 
gas will go to Japan where they pay more.  
Questions on  
- professional services (yes and framework for qualifications) visas? (not normally part of trade agreements)  
- SPS for pork (made progress recently but aware some barriers still remain) 
- IT institutions don't do anything for us on export markets, I'm trying to do a startup in China and It export 
promotion advised me to do it on my own, because if I wait for them to help it takes 2 years. I hope to open it in 
September instead.    
- Public procurement. Doherty: we are very open, lots of Spanish companies building highways. Me: but issue is 
origin of products, they have to use e.g. US steel and cement.  
- How confident is COM that TTIP will be approved by national parliaments and EP? TTIP probably mixed given 
large scope - COM in constant contact with Council and EP on all issues, we don't negotiate in the void.  
Art. 4.1b
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