The U.S. International Trade Commission’s investigation of Trade, Investment, and Industrial Policies in India: Effects on the U.S. Economy held its second and third hearing on Friday, February 14. This blog contains notes on...
Read MoreOn February 12, the International Trade Commission held its first day of a two day hearing on Trade, Investment, and Industrial Policies in India: Effects on the U.S. Economy. Last August, Sen. Baucus, Sen. Hatch, Rep. Camp and...
Read MoreLast Friday, an interagency committee led by the U.S. Trade Representative received comments for the 2014 Special 301 Review. This annual review is a process in which it identifies countries that allegedly “deny adequate and...
Read MoreEarlier this week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released the second edition of its Global Intellectual Property Index, a report which grades countries on the strength of their IP protection. This year’s index covers 25...
Read MoreThis morning, Sen. Orrin Hatch spoke about international intellectual property issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was the keynote at the organization’s launch of the second edition of its Global Intellectual Property...
Read MoreLast week, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the circumvention of technological protection measures is not illegal in all cases. In order for the circumvention to be illegal, it must be done for the purpose...
Read MoreThe third round of negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are underway this week in Kuala Lumpur. RCEP is a proposed trade agreement involving the ten ASEAN member states and six additional...
Read MoreMexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo gave a briefing in Mexico City about the state of the TPP negotiations, which he said may be completed by the end of April. He said that the Singapore Ministerial helped move...
Read MoreYesterday, the Cato Institute hosted a panel on the Investor-State dispute brought by Eli Lilly against Canada under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The panel featured Mark Schultz from the Southern...
Read MoreToday, President and First Lady Obama met with university and higher education leaders to promote efforts “to help more students afford and graduate from college with the skills they need.” A White House press...
Read MoreSenators Baucus and Hatch (the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Finance Committee) have introduced Trade Promotion Authority legislation, formally titled the Bipartisan Congressonal Trade Priorities Act of...
Read MoreOn January 2, the United States Trade Representative issued its Federal Register Notice for the Special 301 Review. It is seeking “written submissions from the public concerning foreign countries that deny adequate and...
Read MoreLast week, The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) submitted a report to Congress on the state of China’s compliance with WTO rules, including those on intellectual property (the TRIPS Agreement). The report states that...
Read MoreTo date, 200 people from around the world have signed the Third Global Congress Global Congress Declaration on Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations. The Declaration, drafted...
Read MoreThe EU Greens have sent around a first hand account of a December 5 meeting between trade officials including Velasco Martins (the EC’s top negotiator for IP in TTIP), and lobbyists from “TimeWarner, Microsoft, Ford,...
Read MoreMajor unions in the U.S. and Europe have written US Trade Representative Al Froman and EU Director General for Trade Karel de Gucht, warning against provisions in the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and...
Read MoreA Wall Street Journal blog by William Mauldin describes a recent meeting with Obama and his “trade team” to strategize over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade Promotion Authority. The end of the blog has...
Read MoreAs Trade Ministers meet for their TPP meeting in Singapore this week, additional leaks have been posted by Wikileaks and the Huffington Post showing different countries’ positions on a number of different issues (including but...
Read MoreUSTR has proposed giving differential treatment to some of the TPP negotiating partners. Their plan would allow countries not classified as high income by the World Bank to delay implementation of some (not all) of the proposed...
Read MoreThe copyright industries hire a lot of people, and employment figures are often used to argue for stronger protection for rightholders. But do the industries in countries with stronger protection for rightholders hire more...
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