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Stalled EU-US talks offer a reality check for our own post-Brexit trade hopes

3 September 2016

9:00 AM

3 September 2016

9:00 AM

Should we care two hoots whether negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP, pronounced ‘Tee-tip’ by cognoscenti) has ‘de facto failed’? That’s what German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said this weekend, pointing out that since talks between Brussels and Washington began three years ago, no agreement had been reached under any of the 27 headings tabled.

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