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# US-EU Free Trade Agreement: Recipe for Growth or Road to Nowhere? 

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Date and Time 

February 27, 2013 12 - 1:30 PM EST 

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Hayek Auditorium 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **Fredrik Erixon**, Director, European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE); **Simon Lester**, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; **David Talbott**, Director, International Government Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company; and **Charles Levy**, Partner, Cassidy Levy Kent (USA), LLP; moderated by **Daniel Ikenson**, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute. 

There has been a lot of happy talk about the prospects for a comprehensive free-trade agreement between the United States and the European Union. There is no question that a deal to reduce and eliminate trade barriers between economies accounting for 45 percent of the world’s GDP and nearly 40 percent of its trade would be something to celebrate. But a profound sense of skepticism, shaped by years of U.S. trade-policy sclerosis, has many commentators focused on the daunting obstacles to success.

Please join us for a discussion among experts of the potential economic benefits of an agreement, the obstacles that will need to be overcome, possible negotiating strategies, and the potential effects of a successful outcome on the global trading system and its institutions.

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