Articles by language
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17-Mar-2004
US-Cambodia Trade and IPR Agreement (1996)
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17-Mar-2004
US-Korea IPR & Insurance Understandings (1985-1986)
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17-Mar-2004
US-Sri Lanka IPR Agreement (1991)
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16-Mar-2004
US-Brunei TIFA (2002)
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14-Mar-2004
Bilateralism in intellectual property
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. -
13-Mar-2004
Australia, China FTA talks progressing rapidly
Talks on a free trade agreement between Australia and China are moving faster than was anticipated, foreign minister Alexander Downer said today. -
13-Mar-2004
King’s reforms had positive impact on Morocco-US FTA, prime minister
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. -
13-Mar-2004 Friends of Morocco
Police break up Morocco protest against trade deal.
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. -
12-Mar-2004 Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral:What Is The Way
Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral: What Is The Way?
The Chicago Conference on the Global Economy ’The Future of the Global Trading System’ -
12-Mar-2004 raioo.com
Stick approach: Police break up free trade demo in Morocco
Witnesses say police used batons to break up 200 people protesting in Rabat against US-Morocco free trade deal. -
8-Mar-2004 VIET NAM, LAOS SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENT FOR 2002
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. -
7-Mar-2004
EU-Israel FTA (2000)
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5-Mar-2004
No plans for a US-EU free trade pact
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. -
5-Mar-2004
TRIPS-plus through the backdoor
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. -
2-Mar-2004
Colombia-US free trade treaty - far more than trade
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. -
2-Mar-2004 Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
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. -
1-Mar-2004 US-SACU trade talks takes on centre stage
US-SACU trade talks takes on centre stage
The fourth round of negotiations between the Southern African Customs Union and the US took place this weekend in Walvis Bay, Namibia. -
26-Feb-2004
Why Asian countries are racing to sign bilateral trade deals with each other
With everyone but Mongolia and North Korea doing it, even South Korea’s protectionists could not resist any longer. After three failed attempts, the National Assembly finally ratified the country’s first-ever free-trade agreement (FTA) last week. -
25-Feb-2004
PM urges US-type rules
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has ordered the Commerce Ministry to quickly address the issue of intellectual property-right violations to facilitate the creation of the Thailand-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA). -
14-Feb-2004 Update of US model BIT
US draft model BIT