U.S.-CREST

Overall Objectives

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Defense & Security Policy

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Transatlantic Coalition Building

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Concept Development & Experimentation

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Defense & Civil Aerospace Trade

Programs/
Defense & Civil Aerospace Trade:

Transatlantic Strategic Defense Trade Control

Towards a better Harmonized Transatlantic Approach to Defense Trade & the Making of a Transatlantic Defense, Technological & Industrial Base

Towards Hamonized Transatlantic Approach to Standardization & Certification of Civil Aerospace Equipment & Services

Towards a Better Harmonized Transatlantic Approach to Defense Trade & the Making of a Transatlantic Defense, Technological & Industrial Base

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In the context of open transatlantic markets and a globalized world economy, the defense sector is still unique to some extent in the sense that international regimes clearly tend to limit proliferation of weapons and corresponding know-how rather than push for the widest possible exchanges and business flows.
Nevertheless, defense business is subject to common constraints and challenges which have been created by the internationalization of economies and industry alliances especially between Europe and the United States. The defense sector can no longer prosper in a bubble and the defense industry landscape shows an ever growing common technology supply and multiple transatlantic investments.
Therefore U.S.-CREST believes that it would be mutually beneficial for the United States and Europe to further harmonize their approach to defense trade in order to nurture a healthy transatlantic defense and technical industrial base.
U.S.-CREST's goal is to conduct a three part study program to explore how to move towards a better harmonized transatlantic approach to defense trade.
The first part which is sponsored by the European Commission addresses specific aspects of rules and regulation related to defense trade in the U.S. with the objective of promoting better Euro-Atlantic understanding of the nature and impacts of bridges and barriers to trade with the United States for European defense industries.
The second part would offer a thorough analysis of European rules, regulations and practices and their impacts on transtlantic defense and aerospace trade.
The third part would be to study in detail how a harmonized approach to defense trade between the United States and Europe would contribute to the overall health and efficiency of a transatlantic defense and technology industrial base.