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It was another good day in Congress for the initiative to expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) following a House Ways and Means Committee trade hearing – this time at the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing on “The Role of Trade and Technology in 21st-Century Manufacturing.” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) led off his questions with a strong acknowledgement of the benefits an expanded ITA will [...]
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The ongoing effort to expand products covered by the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) got a helpful congressional boost at today’s trade hearing by the Subcommittee on Trade of the House Ways and Means Committee. Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) began the hearing, expressing the frustration so many are feeling with China’s “intransigence” on this effort, underscoring the importance that any final [...]
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Some good news coming out of the high-level U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Beijing this week is that China has signaled it is continuing domestic consultations to raise its level of ambition to expand product coverage of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA). And this signaling was apparent during the meetings today and yesterday at very senior levels. The bad news is that [...]
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Negotiations on the Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) launched this week at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva aimed at removing tariffs on a broad range of environmental technologies. ITI, as part of the Coalition for Green Trade, is advocating for a timely and ambitious negotiation of the EGA to ensure a wide range of new and innovative technologies designed to protect the environment [...]
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With policy wallahs from around the world intensifying their focus on how India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to breathe new life back into his country’s sputtering economy, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) President and CEO Dean Garfield sent a letter congratulating the new leader on his historic electoral victory and suggested policy recommendations intended to help set the stage [...]
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As trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies get snuggled into their plane seats en route to their trade conclave in Qingdao, China this weekend, there is increasing focus on whether Beijing can really help deliver a big trade win for APEC via a breakthrough in the stalled negotiations to expand the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Information Technology Agreement [...]
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In a statement released today, more than 80 trade associations from around the world are calling on the trade ministers from the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies descending on Qingdao, China May 17-18 to reach a breakthrough in the negotiations to significantly expand product coverage of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA). Expansion of the agreement will create hundreds [...]
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São Paulo - Brazil’s NETmundial global multistakeholder Internet governance conference has just wrapped up with consensus among participants on the non-binding NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement of São Paulo which includes Internet governance principles and a roadmap on the future of Internet governance. This was no easy feat. First of all, parabens to the Brazilian government and Brazil’s Internet [...]
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As U.S. and EU trade negotiators meet this week in Brussels for the next round of “T-TIP,” we urge both sides to place particular emphasis on the ‘P’, the Partnership aspect of the undertaking. Clearly, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership presents a significant opportunity to enhance and expand one of the most important bilateral trade relationships in history. One of the primary goals [...]
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DATELINE BRASILIA -- Brazil’s Congress has delayed a vote yet again this week on a bill that could have some decidedly negative ramifications for the Internet and the global digital economy. In the months following the NSA surveillance revelations, Brazil’s Marco Civil da Internet, originally a type of constitution for Internet users, has been peppered with provisions that could cripple the growth [...]
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