How can the EU/US Trade negotiations help your business?
Here is some of the feedback we have had from attendees of our road shows regarding the barriers they currently face when exporting to the US:
- “As a professional services business which advises businesses which currently conduct transatlantic trade, anything that makes this easier will help our clients and will impact on the advice we can provide”, Andrew McNamara, Partner, BDO LLP, 5th November 2013, Edinburgh
- “This is what would help my business: General Services Administration (GSA) simplification or removal; simplification of working in multiple states; reciprocity on defence expenditure which is talked about but never reaches the SMEs”, Marcus Kneen, CEO, Indigovision, 5th November 2013, Edinburgh
- “It would be helpful to my business if the visa waiver programme was extended to delivery of services; global entry programme extended to EU citizens”, Sander Vermeulen, Business Consultant, SIMUL8 Corporation, 5th November 2013, Edinburgh
- “It would be helpful to cut tariffs and make importing an American product back into the USA (after modification) easier, improving certification coordination”, Steve Broadfoot, CEO, Director, Founder of Lugplugs, 5th November 2013, Edinburgh
- “It would be useful to harmonise legislation for food safety and standards”, Colette Backwell, Director, Scottish Food and Drink Federation, 5th November 2013, Edinburgh
- “The EU-US Trade negotiations could help my business by reducing shipping charges and so making our products more competitive. They could help to launch us into a new market”, Zoe Brimelow, Brand Director, Duo UK, 28th November 2013, Manchester
- “The EU-US Trade and Investment negotiations would help my business by making it easier to export. Obtaining licences is an issue in our industry, the cheese exports industry. Licence is given to US citizens to import but not for UK exporters going to the US”, Gary Johnson, Business Development Manager for Exports, Wensleydale Dairy Products, 28th November 2013, Manchester
- “The EU-US trade negotiations could help my business by reducing or abolishing duties from the EU to the US”, Neil Flatley, Managing Director, Linzi Jay Ltd, 28th November 2013, Manchester
- “Direct and hands on free help with NDAs and commercial agreements with US suppliers and specific potential deals with some of the big US buyers.”, Pippa McCartney, Business Development, Bernard McCartney Ltd, 28th November 2013, Manchester
- “We manufacture products which comply to the IEC standards (International Electrotechnical Commission) which the USA actively participates in. However, the USA “modifies” these standards into Underwriters Laboratory (UL) standards which have become a barrier to entry due to cost, admin, and technical changes. Why won’t the US adopt recognised CE standards instead of USA specific standards?”, Mark Marsh, Finance Director, Seaward, 4th December 2013 , Newcastle
We would be interested in hearing how TTIP could help your business. Please let us know by emailing Emanuel Adam at eadam@babinc.org