Merkel urges big push on EU-US free trade deal

reuters.com ^ | July 3, 2014 | Reuters

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...Supporters say creating the world's largest free-trade pact, and a marketplace of 815 million people, could boost the EU and U.S. economies by $100 billion a year each.

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Free american money

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Beware Merkel , everything Obama touches turns into brown smelly stuff

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no.

[DisorderOnBorder]

This would be an economic disaster, a Free Trade deal w EU

The Liberal Globalist dream to destroy America never ends...and every Free Trader has a hero in Obama

The EU is dying, and any trade deal means US wealth is redistributed to bail out the failed EU

This treaty will end all European automakers manufacturing in the US. Existing tariffs on automobiles get the Euros to make cars here for US sale. Take it away...and those factories close....and states with those factories lose billions

Also, this treaty will not end the EU tariff on all American products...via the EU Value Added Tax. All items coming from US to EU are slapped w a high tariff

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US investment in the EU is 3 times greater than US investment in the whole of Asia and EU investment in the US is eight times that of EU investment in India and China combined. Intra-company transfers are estimated to constitute a third of all transatlantic trade. The US and EU are the largest trading partners of most other countries in the world and account for a third of world trade flows. Given the already low tariff barriers (under 3%), to make the deal a success the aim is to remove non-tariff barriers.

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Romania parliament ratifies EU-Moldova association agreement

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Strong Irish growth raises prospect of eased austerity

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Greece forges template for economic recovery as tourists pour in

After six stark years of recession, debt-stricken Greece is back, doing what it has done since the 50s, drawing in holidaymakers from far and wide, only this time at record-breaking rates.

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Russia has banned meat exports from Moldova

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Spanish retail sales rose 0.5 per cent year-on-year on a calendar-adjusted basis in May

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In April this year Portugal registered a year-on-year drop in unemployment that was the second largest in the EU, falling from 17.3 percent in April 2013 to 14.6 percent in April this year.

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Italy takes over EU presidency

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