Trans-Atlantic Trade

After two important visits to India and Russia, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's planned destinations for next week are China on May 14-15 and the United States on May 16-17. Then he will visit Brussels to attend a NATO summit. In Brussels, a high-level meeting with the European Union is also likely.

Negotiations on a US-EU free trade deal "will fail" if the US refuses to make concessions, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned on April 24 ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.

Europe and the United States should wrap up a U.S.-European free trade deal this year or people will start thinking it might never happen, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told a German newspaper.

MP Ana Birchall of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), chair of the Committee on European Affairs of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies and high governmental representative for European affairs and partnership with the US, is paying an official visit to the US, March 23-28 to discuss parliamentary diplomacy cooperation as well as consolidating and deepening the strategic partnership between Romani

The US economic interest in Turkey remains strong despite political strains, says Turkish American Chamber of Commerce head Beşir Kemal Ustaoğlu.