Articles by language
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20-Mar-2004
US-Philippines IPR Understanding (1993)
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20-Mar-2004
US-Trinidad & Tobago IPR Agreement (1994)
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20-Mar-2004
US-Taiwan IPR Agreements (1992-1993)
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20-Mar-2004
US-Viet Nam copyright agreement (1997)
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20-Mar-2004
Switzerland-Viet Nam IPR agreement (1999)
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20-Mar-2004
Why we say no to CAFTA
This document is the product of a collective effort by a group of Central American and U.S. women and men. It is part of a comprehensive public-education campaign on the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) being carried out by Central American and U.S. organizations in the Bloque Popular Centraomericano and the Hemispheric Social Alliance. -
20-Mar-2004
Expanding Intellectual Property’s Empire: The Role of FTAs
Intellectual property rights were important to chemical firms in nineteenth century Europe and to US and European pharmaceutical companies in the twentieth century. The relationship was one of mutual importance. Because these companies wanted intellectual property rights, especially patents they took an interest in lobbying governments on their design. -
20-Mar-2004
TRIPS-plus through EFTA’s backdoor
The Free Trade Agreements concluded between the four member states of the European Free Trade Association ¬(EFTA) - Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - and a number of developing countries contain provisions on the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) which go far beyond the obligations already imposed on these countries in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO). -
20-Mar-2004
TRIPS-plus must stop
Last month, GRAIN issued an open letter to Pascal Lamy, the chief of trade policy at the European Commission. In it, we disputed Mr Lamy’s public relations efforts aimed at trying to convince the world that the EU champions the rights of Third World farmers to save seeds. -
20-Mar-2004
EU-Bangladesh Cooperation Agreement (2001)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Egypt Association Agreement (2001)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Jordan Association Agreement (2002)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Korea Framework Agreement for Trade and Cooperation (2001)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Mediterranean Strategy 2002-2006
The Barcelona Process, established in 1995, is the means through which the EU supports Mediterranean partners in their political, economic and social reforms while at the same time building a closer EU-Med partnership. -
20-Mar-2004
EU-Chile Association Agreement (2002)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Algeria Association Agreement (2002)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Lebanon Association Agreement (2002)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Morocco Association Agreement (2000)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-Mexico Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement (2000)
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20-Mar-2004
EU-PLO Interim Association Agreement (1997)