Timothy Meyer

Jul 18, 2023 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Todd Tucker |Timothy Meyer |J. Benton Heath |Maha Rafi Atal

The summer of 2023 poses a significant test for negotiations between the United States and European Union over the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum (GASSA). If successful, these talks could establish the world’s first sectoral trade deal to lower carbon emissions, creating a promising precedent for rewriting the rules of trade in a post-neoliberal, pro-worker, pro-environment direction for other sectors of the global economy.

Jul 18, 2023 | rooseveltinstitute.org | J. Benton Heath |Timothy Meyer

A deal between the United States and the European Union on “green” steel and aluminum could both fuel economies and transform the politics of climate change. But these goals could be jeopardized if negotiators are preoccupied with insulating the deal from legal challenges.

Jul 18, 2023 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Todd Tucker |Timothy Meyer

On July 10, 2023, Bruegel (a think tank based in Brussels) published a working paper criticizing a June 2021 working paper of ours for the Roosevelt Institute entitled “A Green Steel Deal: Toward Pro-Jobs, Pro-Climate Transatlantic Cooperation on Carbon Border Measures,” as well as a December 2022 concept paper by the Biden administration for a Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum (GASSA).