6-Mar-2018
Electronic Frontier Foundation
On March 8, trade representatives from eleven Pacific rim countries including Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Australia are expected to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The agreement has been slimmed down both in its content—22 items in the text have been suspended, including the bulk of the intellectual property chapter—and also in its membership, with the exclusion of the United States which had been the driver of those suspended provisions.
13-Dec-2017
Public Knowledge
Many of the intellectual property provisions raised by the European Union in this agreement are bad for internet users.
3-Nov-2017
BusinessEurope
BusinessEurope has a clear position on this issue. We support a solution that enables cross-border data flows and effectively tackles forced data localisation when it is disproportionate and unjustified.
23-Oct-2017
The Hindu Businessline
Freeing up digital trade under RCEP could hurt consumer protection, manufacturing sector