While both parties aim to eliminate remaining tariffs on bilateral trade, they are particularly eager to reduce the thicket of non-tariff barriers – mainly competing technical and sanitary standards and regulations – that have stifled development of the bilateral economic relationship. Closer regulatory cooperation may also help the US and the EU to confront what business leaders view as increasingly unfair competition from China both at home and abroad.
双方都旨在取消双边贸易中仍然存在的关税，但最为渴望的还是削弱最厚实的非关税壁垒——主要是相互抵触的技术和卫生标准和监管，这些壁垒阻碍了双边经济关系的发展。加紧监管合作可能还有助于美国和欧盟应对商业领袖所谓的来自中国的不公平国内外竞争的挑战。