LSE US Centre: Will Donald Trump shoot down TTIP or rebrand it as the ‘Trump Trade and Investment Partnership’?

Our research fellow Tereza Novotná published on LSE US Centre an arcticle about the future of TTIP after Trump's inauguration.

Our research fellow Tereza Novotná published on website LSE US Centre her arcticle about the possible future of TTIP after Donald Trump takes office. She mentioned five possible scenarios, which are based on comments of Donald Trump about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

As an experienced entrepreneur, he will opt for a popular business strategy, resurrecting the same old TTIP under a new banner, which could even be called the ‘Trump Trade and Investment Partnership’.

Yet Donald Trump has already announced that he would withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on his first day in office. Nonetheless, it is not only TPP but also the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that has been on the agenda since 2013. 

You can read the article on LSE US Center website here.

Tereza Novotná
Senior Associate Research Fellow

Expertise: EU foreign policy, North and South Korea and NE Asia; European External Action Service, EU Delegations; transatlantic relations and trade; EU enlargement and EU institutions; Germany (foreign and domestic politics, particularly in the Eastern parts of Germany).