The Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Background and Key Issues

Ilias, Shayerah

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Trade agreements;    International affairs;    Trade;    European Union;   

RP-ID  :  R41107
RP-ID  :  R41107_2012Mar01

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a new agreement for combating intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement. The ACTA negotiation concluded in October 2010, nearly three years after it began, and negotiating parties released a final text of the agreement in May 2011. Negotiated by the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union and its 27 member states, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland, the ACTA is intended to build on the IPR protection and enforcement obligations set forth in the 1995 World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement).