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• Swedish Minister To Demand ACTA Be Opened Up

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 719
  Swedish Communications Minister Åsa Torstensson visits Washington, DC next week with a meeting with the USTR on the agenda. According to a press release , the message on ACTA will be simple: open up the process to the public and do not adopt a three-strikes model.
  6 days ago

• U.S. Senators Call for ACTA Transparency

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 719
  While the MPAA characterizes the calls for ACTA transparency as a distraction, at least two U.S. Senators do not agree.  Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have written to USTR , asking that the ACTA text be made public.
  1 week ago

• Another Pro-ACTA Letter from MPAA, RIAA, et al.

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  A number of movie studios, record labels, and other copyright-holding companies (and their related trade associations) have also written a pro-ACTA letter to Congress , which I first saw posted on Ben Sheffner’s blog . Minus the bizarre “distraction” claim, it follows the same basic pattern—that ACTA will ...
  1 week ago

• Hollywood: Never Mind the Transparency, Heres the ACTA

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  It’s not a surprise that the Motion Picture Association of America is a supporter of the so-called Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement , a proposed international copyright and trademark agreement that the public isn’t allowed to see. What is surprising is how willing the MPAA is to dismiss calls for an open and ...
  1 week ago

• USTR Welcomes Launch of Environmental Goods and Services Information Exchange

  
  Export Industry News — Authority: 142
  On November 18, United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk welcomed the launch of the Environmental Goods and Services Information Exchange (EGSIE). The EGSIE is a new Web site intended to promote information-sharing and collaboration related to cutting-edge environmental technologies in the Asia-Pacific region and ...
  1 week ago

• USTR Requests Comments Concerning Compliance With Telecommunications Trade Agreements

  
  Export Industry News — Authority: 142
  Pursuant to § 1377 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (19 U.S.C. 3106) (Section 1377), the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) is reviewing and requests comments on the operation, effectiveness, and implementation of and compliance with the following agreements regarding ...
  2 weeks ago

• USTR Kirk Comments on Trans-Pacific Partnership Announcement from President Obama

  
  Export Industry News — Authority: 142
  In an address to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) CEO Summit on November 13 in Singapore, United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) Ron Kirk commented on President Barack Obama’s announcement that the United States will engage with the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP). In ...
  2 weeks ago

• USTR Kirk Comments on Trans-Pacific Partnership Announcement from President Obama

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 145
  In an address to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) CEO Summit on November 13 in Singapore, United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) Ron Kirk commented on President Barack Obama’s announcement that the United States will engage with the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP). In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama in China — What will they remember 100 years from now?

  
  China Business Blog and Podcast — Authority: 414
  Filed from Beijing U.S. President Barack Obama is in Shanghai and will be coming to Beijing today. He spoke to a “town hall meeting” with young students in Shanghai and Obama took the high road on issues ranging from universal rights to trade to climate change. He also offered to open the U.S. educational ...
  2 weeks ago

• (USTR) United Stationers Inc. – Surprised by 45.26% in the Third Quarter

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 460
  United Stationers Inc. ( USTR ) has surprised on the Zacks Consensus Estimate 4 consecutive quarters by an average of 28.24% as inventory reduction has boosted the bottom line. The company is trading with a forward P/E of 13.32. Company Description United Stationers distributes business products in the United ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copyright, Climate, the Chamber of Commerce, and ACTA: a few more connections

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has made a good deal of intellectual property news recently, given their copyright and trademark lawsuit against the Yes Men for the latter’s fake press conference and website, in which they impersonated the Chamber and claimed that it was reversing its position on climate change ...
  3 weeks ago

• ACTA Treaty Anti-Consumer and Anti-Innovation Groups Tell Congress

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  For Immediate Release:  November 9, 2009 A treaty being negotiated by the U.S. government dealing with intellectual property issues appears to have included parts of prior agreements “most favorable to groups of intellectual property holders” while leaving out ...
  3 weeks ago

• United States Initiates NAFTA Dispute with Mexico over Mexico’s Failure to Move Its Tuna-Dolphin Dispute from the WTO to the NAFTA

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 145
  On November 6, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) announced that the United States has requested North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) dispute settlement consultations with Mexico regarding Mexico’s failure to move its “dolphin safe” labeling dispute from the World Trade ...
  3 weeks ago

• USTR Affirms Deadline for the Filing of Petitions Requesting CNL Waivers for the 2009 GSP Annual Review

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 145
  The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) has published a notice in the Federal Register affirming the previously announced deadline of November 17, 2009, for submission of petitions requesting Competitive Need Limitation (CNL) waivers and determinations regarding eligible products not produced in the United ...
  3 weeks ago

• United States Requests WTO Panel Against China Regarding Export Restraints on Raw Materials

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 145
  On November 4, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) announced that the United States had asked the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) to establish a dispute settlement panel regarding China’s export restraints on numerous raw materials critical to U.S. manufacturers and workers. The materials ...
  3 weeks ago

• Groups Protest Obama Administration Secrecy on Trade Agreement

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  For Immediate Release:  November 5, 2009 Sixteen library, consumer, creator, and civil liberties organizations today told the Obama Administration of their “deep concerns about the lack of transparency and openness” surrounding the negotiation of an international ...
  3 weeks ago

• Roundup on new ACTA leak stories

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  Just a quick note on some of the recently-surfaced news on ACTA ’s Internet provisions. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa has some details and analysis here ; IDG/PC World has a good summary here And EFF has additional in-depth analysis and discussion here .
  4 weeks ago

• New Bill Would Require Targeting of Foreign Trade Barriers

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 145
  U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) have announced the introduction of the Trade Enforcement Priorities Act of 2009 ( S. 1982 ), legislation that would give the federal government more authority to address trade barriers that undermine American workers and domestic manufacturing. ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Bill Would Require Targeting of Foreign Trade Barriers

  
  Export Industry News — Authority: 142
  U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) have announced the introduction of the Trade Enforcement Priorities Act of 2009 ( S. 1982 ), legislation that would give the federal government more authority to address trade barriers that undermine American workers and domestic manufacturing. ...
  4 weeks ago

• U.S. and COMESA Officials Meet for Trade and Investment Talks

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 145
  On November 2, U.S. trade and development officials held in-depth discussions with officials from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ( COMESA ) to review progress on their work together under the U.S.-COMESA Trade and Investment Framework Agreement ( TIFA ). It was the sixth high-level meeting under the ...
  4 weeks ago

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