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Free trade agreements (FTAs) don't include requirements to strengthen data privacy laws, other than by vague and unenforceable gestures. While many FTAs are quite benign to privacy, others may be toxic to domestic privacy laws which impose restrictions on cross-border data transfers, but the...
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Home to many geographical indications (GIs) meant to evoke specific reputational qualities of the products to which these designations relate, the European Union (EU) has played a prominent role in the promotion of GIs in the global economy. Amongst the various tools to which the EU has resorted...
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Regulatory cooperation to eliminate non-tariff barriers to trade (NTBs) resulting from differences in product standards and technical regulations has become a prominent issue in Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) negotiations. This paper looks at the most important challenges and opportunities...
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The paper provides an overview of the potential social, economic and environmental impacts of an EU-Libya FTA as gauged by the EU-Libya Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA). The main potential benefits to both the EU and Libya from the proposed trade agreement come from closer...
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regulation under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and critically … trade medium of today, but very likely the future. Already more than half of world trade is conducted under bilaterals …. They could render MFN the least favored status in world trade. Such an outcome would be especially harmful to the world …
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India has a long history of economic linkages with the EU member states. In recent period, the volumes of Indo-EU trade both in case of merchandise products and services have considerably increased and a number of investment collaboration opportunities are emerging. Since 2007 the two sides are...
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, better known under the name “TTIP”, is a bilateral trade and investment agreement that has been negotiated between the European Union and the United States since 2013. The respective administrations on both sides of the Atlantic have...
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The Uniform Premarital Agreement Act raised the promise of greater individual freedom in defining intimate relationships. This promise, however, was never realized. Due to a number of practical rather than legal constraints, prenuptial agreements remain rare. Postnuptial agreements contracts...
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Increasingly, in regional agreements, large economies, e.g. U.S. and E.U., offer lower trade barriers in exchange for cooperation by small economies in environmental, intellectual property and other issues. What is the effect of such agreements on multilateral trade liberalization? We show that,...
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