This is an abridged version of note NR15-02-1661.0. The focus of international trade settlements was when quotas and tariffs - just how much of a particular item could be imported and the responsibility levied at the border. As the world economy has experienced deeper combination, attention has shifted away from tariffs and quotas to the complicated policies and guidelines that affect the international motion of goods, services and financial investment. Such policies include defenses for copyright rights.
Negotiated throughout the Uruguay Round, the 1994 Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Copyright Rights (TRIPs) significantly widened the reach of the trading program by establishing. An extensive set of international trade rules for intellectual property. World Trade Company (WTO) members are now obliged to embrace policies that protect patents, trademarks, and copyrights. While nations remain free to provide a lot more protection than the TRIPs requires, the agreement sets minimum standards. 1661.3
PUBLICATION DATE: February 28, 2008 PRODUCT #: HKS432-HCB-ENG
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