TRANSATLANTIC PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY THROUGH BCTT

The recently launched Business Coalition for Transatlantic Trade (BCTT) seeks to promote growth, jobs, and competitiveness on both sides of the Atlantic through an ambitious, comprehensive and high-standard trade and investment agreement between the United States and the European Union.

BCTT’s Steering Committee is co-chaired by major companies with significant equities in the transatlantic economy as well as many of the major  multi-sectoral industry organizations. The coalition has several issue-specific working groups as well as a broad-based general membership. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce serves as the secretariat for the coalition.

Corporate Co-Chairs include:

• Amway
• Chrysler
• Citi
• Dow
• FedEx
• Ford
• GE
• IBM
• Intel
• Johnson & Johnson
• JP Morgan Chase
• Lilly
• MetLife
• UPS

Partner Associations

• American Meat Institute (AMI)
• Business Roundtable
• BSA The Software Alliance
• Coalition of Service Industries
• Emergency Committee for American Trade
• National Association of Manufacturers
• National Foreign Trade Council
• North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA)
• Transatlantic Business Council
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• U.S. Council for International Business

Working Groups: Several companies and association are chairing the following Working Groups

• Goods
• Food and Agriculture/SPS
• Supply Chain/Trade Facilitation
• Services
• Mobility/Visa Issues
• Regulatory Cooperation (Horizontal/TBT/Sector-Specific)
• Digital Trade
• Competition Policy
• Procurement
• Investment
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Advocacy/Communications (Administration and Congress)

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