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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thought this might be of interest to some of you here. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Burcu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jeffrey Chester [mailto:jeff@democraticmedia.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> ttip-info@tacd.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [TACD TTIP] USTR report on data, criticizes EU<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>excerpt: ...<span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>the European Union (EU), where a variety of voices, including a leading German telecommunications supplier, are openly advocating for trade-distortive restrictions on data flows, purportedly justified on privacy grounds. ...Recent proposals from countries within the European Union to create a Europe-only electronic network (dubbed a “Schengen cloud” by advocates) or to create national-only electronic networks could potentially lead to effective exclusion or discrimination against foreign service suppliers that are directly offering network services, or dependent on them. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>In particular, Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG), Germany’s biggest phone company, is publicly advocating for EU-wide statutory requirements that electronic transmissions between EU residents stay within the territory of the EU, in the name of stronger privacy protection.</span><span style='font-size:6.0pt'>6 </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Specifically, DTAG has called for statutory requirements that all data generated within the EU not be unnecessarily routed outside of the EU; and has called for revocation of the U.S.-EU “Safe Harbor” Framework, which has provided a practical mechanism for both U.S companies and their business partners in Europe to export data to the United States, while adhering to EU privacy requirements. The United States and the EU share common interests in protecting their citizens’ privacy, but the draconian approach proposed by DTAG and others appears to be a means of providing protectionist advantage to EU-based ICT suppliers. Given the breath of legitimate services that rely on geographically-dispersed data processing and storage, a requirement to route all traffic involving EU consumers within Europe, would decrease efficiency and stifle innovation. For example, a supplier may transmit, store, and process its data outside the EU more efficiently, depending on the location of its data centers. An innovative supplier from outside of Europe may refrain from offering its services in the EU because it may find EU-based storage and processing requirements infeasible for nascent services launched from outside of Europe. Furthermore, any mandatory intra-EU routing may raise questions with respect to compliance with the EU’s trade obligations with respect to Internet-enabled services. Accordingly, USTR will be carefully monitoring the development of any such proposals. </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><h1>USTR Targets Telecommunications Trade Barriers<o:p></o:p></h1></div><div id=node-8765><div><p align=center style='text-align:center'><em><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Annual Report Highlights Cross-border Data Flows, Competition Issues,</span></b></em><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br><em>Legal Restrictions on Foreign Access, and Local Content Requirements,</em><br><em>Other Roadblocks Faced by U.S. Telecom Suppliers and Exporters</em></span></i></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Washington, D.C.</span></strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> – United States Trade Representative Michael Froman today<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2014/March/USTR-Targets-Telecommunications-Trade-Barriers">http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2014/March/USTR-Targets-Telecommunications-Trade-Barriers</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Jeffrey Chester<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Center for Digital Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 550<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Washington, DC 20009<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.democraticmedia.org">www.democraticmedia.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.digitalads.org">www.digitalads.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>202-986-2220<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>