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A bipartisan group of US Senators and Congressmen introduced similar bills Thursday mandating the Secretary of State to negotiate with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) to rename its office as the “Taiwan Representative Office.” Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Senator Bob Menendez introduced the Senate bill and Democratic Congressman Chris Pappas [...]

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The European Union (EU) Thursday filed a case in the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the People’s Republic of China following trade restrictions that China has been imposing on Lithuania. This move comes in response to trade restrictions that China has imposed on Lithuania since December 2021. The trade restrictions imposed include blocking all Lithuanian [...]

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A World Trade Organization (WTO) arbitrator Wednesday ruled in favor of China in a retaliatory tariff dispute, granting China the right to impose retaliatory tariffs on US imports totaling up to $645 million a year. The decision brings to an end a decade-long dispute between the US and China. China’s WTO complaint originated with tariffs [...]

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appointed a three-person panel Monday to address Australia and China’s dispute over Chinese barley subsidies. This is not the first anti-dumping dispute between Australia and China. Australia imposed remedial duties on Chinese wind towers, train wheels, and stainless steel sinks. China imposed similar duties on Australian wine. [...]

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The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) granted China’s request on Monday to establish a panel to determine its compliance with agricultural import quotas, called Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs). In a press release, the DSB stated that WTO members agreed to establish the panel after China’s first request was blocked. China requested these panels [...]

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In October 2020, the World Trade Organization (WTO) representatives from India and South Africa submitted a proposal for the waiver from the “implementation, application and enforcement” of certain sections of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) in relation to prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Further to this, some countries have [...]

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Climate change is a serious challenge facing countries. Least developed countries (LDCs) are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts due to a lack of adequate resources, particularly technological resources, required to mitigate/adapt to climate change impacts within their territories. Some international agreements recognize this technology challenge faced by LDCs and thus provide for technology [...]

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While the entire world is in the grips of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, 62 co-sponsor countries including India, South Africa, and Indonesia have recently given a revised draft proposal for waiving the Intellectual Property (“IP”) rights of COVID vaccines to the TRIPS Council of the World Trade Organisation (“WTO”), seeking a patent waiver for manufacturing [...]

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On Thursday, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that China has filed a complaint against Australia in the WTO. China’s WTO complaint concerns anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed by Australia on Chinese railway wheels, wind towers and stainless steel sinks. This is the latest stage of an escalating trade conflict between Australia and China. In recent years, [...]

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The European Parliament urged the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, Thursday to support waiver for patents surrounding COVID-19 vaccines.   The proposal, submitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO), demands that COVID-19 vaccine patents be exempt from provisions in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) requirement protecting patent rights, essentially removing IP [...]

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