Of third parties being excluded whether it is rules or market actors. I think one in which country loses Market Access, but as repeatedly pointed out, for the most part, we exclude agriculture, textiles, a few of my favorite industries, for the most part tariffs are very low. Market access is not the biggest deal in the world. With respect to rules on labor standards, if you look at labor standards, Environmental Standards, i think the u. S. And e. U. Are increasing pushing issues already in the ft as after the 2007 agreement with the United States. Con aggression agreement was very clear you will have all the agreements whether chorus or have you, well have environmental labor standards and that will also be the case. The third and last one will be regulatory. Here is where you have a lot of complication. Essentially, this is now the first time you might argue the u. S. Is now in the drivers seat with respect to global trade negotiations. We did agreements with morocco, bahrain and ot
State of play there . Jim, are you following that . Well, a bit. Im not probably not as expert as some others are on this. But certainly i think youre right that the because we are two such gigantic financial markets, the opportunities in liberalization there or harmonization are tremendous. The benefits that flow from that are probably as large as anything you could think of in the entire ttip agreement that would flow from that. In the United States the reluctance on the part and i think we should be doing it. I think the reluctance in the United States is the passage of dodd franks and nobody wants its too new, nobody wants to tamper with that, nobody wants to tinker with that. I think it definitely needs some tinkering with, but nobody really wants to deal with dodd frank and the secretary of treasury, this is a little bit of a turf battle, the secretary of treasury saying thats our area. Trade negotiators dont get into these Financial Services issues, thats for treasury to negotia
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