Telecommunications services and the World Trade Organization

Article Abstract:

The Fourth Protocol, Reference Paper, and other position papers created during the Feb 15, 1997 convention of sixty-nine countries lacked the substantives to support either a comprehensive competition law or regulatory measures on the marketing of telecommunications services to foreign markets. They failed to press for strong regulatory measures towards an international competition law, and did not provide a solution to problems on capital outlays that may be brought about by extreme accounting rates and anti-competitive practices. Nevertheless, the convention signified the first round of efforts to regulate the telecommunications industry in a World Trade Organization framework.

Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Communications Regulatn-Total Govt, Analysis, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, International aspects, Market share, Deregulation, Telecommunications policy, Trade negotiations

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Rehabilitating antidumping and other trade remedies through cost-benefit analyses

Article Abstract:

Governments considering trade remedies such as antidumping measures against other nations should be required to conduct cost-benefit analyses of the proposed action, with costs and benefits being calculated for all involved countries. GATT and OECD proposals have suggested the use of such analyses for years, but many governments have refused to recognize these measures. The makers of trade policy have not been accountable to the public, and the use of restrictive practices may be causing economic harm to the countries that implement them. The public needs to know hat the economic consequences of trade policy really are.

Interpretation and construction, Economic aspects, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Antidumping duties

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WTO implementation in the European Community: antidumping, safeguards and intellectual property

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The implementation of World Trade Organization Agreements on antidumping, safeguards and intellectual property will have from little to substantial impacts on the European Community. The antidumping measure fails to address conceptual problems with dumping and so is only minor clarifications and improvements to current law. The safeguards agreement is too strict and so most industries will apply for antidumping protection instead. However, the Trade-Related Intellectual Properties Agreement represents a significant improvement in the valuation and protection of intellectual property.

Intellectual property, Dumping (International trade), European Community

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