trade negotiations Archive

  • frog

    The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement



    I’m a bit behind the times sometimes and on this one issue, the international negotiation of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, I feel quite bad about it because we’re now running out of time to have an influence. Not that we’re supposed to. According to Public Knowledge: ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated by the [...] read more
    September 18, 2008 4:21 pm - 6 Comments
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    Doha collapses (the trade round, not the city)



    “There is no use beating around the bush, this meeting has collapsed, members have simply not been able to bridge their differences,” the World Trade Organization’s Director-General Pascal Lamy told journalists. And the reason being given for the collapse of this seven year long set of trade negotiaions is India and the USA’s failure to reach [...] read more
    July 30, 2008 8:58 am - 7 Comments