VDMA calls for extended trade agreement • Table.Briefings

Group photo: Thierry Breton, Valdis Dombrovskis, Margrethe Vestager, AntoUS ny Blinken, Secretary of State Gina Raimondo, US Secretary of Commerce and Katherine Tai, US Trade Representative. — Representatives of the Commission and the US government met in Washington in January for the fifth EU-US Trade and Technology Council.

Ahead of the EU-US TTC ministerial meeting, the VDMA is calling for an agreement on the mutual recognition of conformity assessment bodies in order to promote trade in capital goods.

Ahead of the next meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) has called for a significant expansion of trade relations between the European Union and the United States. In a letter, the VDMA calls on both sides to dismantle conformity assessment barriers between the EU and the USA and to pave the way for easier certification of capital goods on both sides of the Atlantic.

VDMA calls for extended trade agreement between EU and USA

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