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Goods and services are sold every day across national boundaries. These transactions are subject to a myriad of laws, regulations, restrictions and special arrangements. This complex web of laws and regulations is comprised of unilateral measures, meaning national or domestic laws, and further complicated by the international law expressed in trade agreements. There are basically […]

This is a market that should not be jumped into without a lot of self education, study, and observation. Read about the failures, but do it to learn how to avoid the obstacles. The Russian market still represents potentially one of the greatest business opportunities in the world today. The country has a huge supply […]

May 3, 2005 – The Bush administration has placed China on a ‘priority watch list’ for allegedly not doing enough to protect intellectual property rights. China’s skeletal copyright laws and lackluster enforcement have combined to create a free-for-all haven for piracy, the US Trade Representative claims. “China must take action to address rampant piracy and counterfeiting, […]

September 2000 – LUIZ FELIPE PALMEIRA LAMPREIA, Minister for External Relations of Brazil points out in his recent UN statement…that we all know that the twentieth century was marred by a fundamental contradiction. A growing abundance of intellectual and material resources should have brought about a greater convergence of opportunities and living standards throughout the world. […]

Introduction People’s impressions of China are often flavored by images of strange clothing and songs, or by students being gunned down in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. By poverty, repression, and by the image of rice farmers ankles deep in mud. Possibly the most recent thoughts in people’s minds though are of prosperity and of all […]

September 2000 – The United Nations had to be a more effective instrument for pursuing priorities, such as the fight for development, the fight against injustices in all its forms, the fight against violence, terror and crime, and the fight against the degradation of the earth, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, told the […]