EU and US trade negotiators seek to get TTIP talks back on track

John Springford, head of research at the Centre for European Reform, said it was hard to see TTIP talks resuming in 2017. "The window of opportunity for getting TTIP done was before we got into the US election campaign, and certainly before the French and German elections got under way [in 2017]. I think that window of opportunity is now closed."...That claim does not reflect the expert consensus, according to Springford at the CER, who said academic studies showed that geography still mattered. "Globalisation, rather than meaning distance no longer matters, has created regionalisation, which has increased the importance of being close to your trading partners, so you can set up supply chains and global value chains, [and] the products are then exported around the world."