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Regional and bilateral treaties and a TRIPS-plus world: the Free Trade Area of the Americas
17-Mar-2004
In these issues papers, authors are invited to examine a subject of importance in the developing international intellectual property regime and highlight key issues they see arising. The topics have been chosen following consultations with negotiators from developing countries, and respond to their concerns.
Netherlands-Bolivia BIT
17-Mar-2004
US-Ecuador IPR Agreement (1993)
17-Mar-2004
US-China IPR Agreements (1992-1996)
17-Mar-2004
US-Cambodia Trade and IPR Agreement (1996)
17-Mar-2004
US-Korea IPR & Insurance Understandings (1985-1986)
17-Mar-2004
US-Sri Lanka IPR Agreement (1991)
17-Mar-2004
US-Brunei TIFA (2002)
16-Mar-2004
Bilateralism in intellectual property
14-Mar-2004
This paper examines the way in which bilateral trade negotiations (Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bilateral Intellectual Property Agreements) are being used by the USA and others to build more extensive protection for intellectual property than that set out in the WTO TRIPS Agreement.
Australia, China FTA talks progressing rapidly
13-Mar-2004
Talks on a free trade agreement between Australia and China are moving faster than was anticipated, foreign minister Alexander Downer said today.
King’s reforms had positive impact on Morocco-US FTA, prime minister
13-Mar-2004
Initiatives and reforms conducted by Moroccan king Mohammed VI in various fields have had "a positive and decisive impact" on the conclusion of a free trade agreement with the United States, said, here Thursday, Moroccan Premier Driss Jettou.
Police break up Morocco protest against trade deal.
13-Mar-2004 Friends of Morocco
Moroccan police armed with truncheons on Wednesday broke up a sit-in by protesters opposed to a free trade deal with the United States which they say could hurt the North African country’s most vulnerable people.
Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral: What Is The Way?
12-Mar-2004 Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral:What Is The Way
The Chicago Conference on the Global Economy ’The Future of the Global Trading System’
Stick approach: Police break up free trade demo in Morocco
12-Mar-2004 raioo.com
Witnesses say police used batons to break up 200 people protesting in Rabat against US-Morocco free trade deal.
Viet Nam, Laos sign bilateral agreement for 2002
8-Mar-2004 VIET NAM, LAOS SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENT FOR 2002
Viet Nam’s Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Lao counterpart, Thonglune Sisoulit, today, Jan. 15, signed in Vientiane an agreement on economic, cultural, scientific and technical cooperation for 2002 between the two countries.
EU-Israel FTA (2000)
7-Mar-2004
No plans for a US-EU free trade pact
5-Mar-2004
A top European Union trade official ruled out chances on Friday of the world’s two largest economic powers, the United States and the EU, negotiating a free trade agreement.
TRIPS-plus through the backdoor
5-Mar-2004
Bilateral agreements are a powerful but hidden tool to achieve uniform market conditions for transnational corporations in developing countries. Silently hammered out between individual governments, they offer a direct means to cut deals over market access privileges, foreign investment, research funding or anchor-free profits.
Colombia-US free trade treaty - far more than trade
2-Mar-2004
Arguments against bilateral US "free trade" agreements with other countries that make it into mainstream Anglophone media tend not to come from industrialists or business people.
Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
2-Mar-2004 Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
Can the South Asian Free Trade Agreement lead to an economic union? By all counts, and indications, such a union is still a distant dream.