How a US-EU trade agreement could improve the economy, increase jobs, and strengthen democracy

Sanjay Patnaik at the HBS campus in Boston April 19, 2011Photographer: Neal Hamberg

Sanjay Patnaik, director of the Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings, discusses his new report on the benefits of a U.S.-EU free trade agreement, building on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration but scuttled by President Trump.

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