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This paper examines the extent to which the US and the EU have opened up access to each others' government procurement contracts. The authors contend that the EU is dissatisfied with the level of procurement that the US has opened under the WTO Government Procurement Agreement and, as a consequence, does not give the US its most comprehensive coverage of procurement. They also suggest that the US has been constrained in responding to the EU's request for greater access by both its federal structure and domestic purchasing requirements. Finally, they look at how the EU and the US could resolve these issues through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.