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Trips: With A Painful Birth, Uncertain Health, And A Host Of Issues In China, Where Lies Its Future, Allan Segal May 2006

Trips: With A Painful Birth, Uncertain Health, And A Host Of Issues In China, Where Lies Its Future, Allan Segal

San Diego International Law Journal

In recent decades, the United States and other western nations have used pragmatic and theoretical reasons to justify a strong, global intellectual property ("IP") regime. From a practical perspective, economically mature nations clearly have a direct, vested interest in preventing the piracy of patented goods and ensuring that their domestic agendas maximize financial protection for inventions or creations. Nevertheless, the supranational disregard of patent protection and IP piracy has a financial impact on numerous companies, as well as the taxpaying citizens, in developed countries. These disparate foundations for basic IP rights result in a haphazard theoretical grounding to the Agreement …


Current Developments Of Wto Dispute Settlement Body Findings On The U.S. Antidumping Sunset Review Regime, Changho Sohn Jan 2006

Current Developments Of Wto Dispute Settlement Body Findings On The U.S. Antidumping Sunset Review Regime, Changho Sohn

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Shrimp Dumping: An Analysis Of Antidumping Laws In The United States And The World Trade Organization, Curtis Beaulieu Jan 2006

Shrimp Dumping: An Analysis Of Antidumping Laws In The United States And The World Trade Organization, Curtis Beaulieu

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

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Bilateralism Under The World Trade Organization, Y.S. Lee Jan 2006

Bilateralism Under The World Trade Organization, Y.S. Lee

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The establishment of the World Trade Organization ("WTO"), which replaced the five decades of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ("GATT") regime,' has significantly reinforced multilateral control over international trade on a global scale. As of October 2005, membership in the WTO has reached 148 nations, including the majority of former Soviet bloc and other communist countries,2 making the WTO the "United Nations of International Trade.",3 WTO disciplines have significant impact on world trade today; they have been enforced by the monitoring activities of various WTO bodies and by strengthened dispute resolution mechanisms. In addition, a significant number of …