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Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy
Espionage and Property Theft Triggers Call to Suspend Israeli Access to U.S. Market
May 10th, 2009
A major legal filing urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to suspend preferential Israeli access to the U.S. market. In 1983 the Israeli Prime Minister and American Israel Public Affairs Committee (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) lobbied the Reagan administration for preferential Israeli access to the U.S. market. In spite of overwhelming opposition from U.S. agricultural, industrial and citizens groups over Israel's weak protection for intellectual property rights, the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area was signed into law in 1985. Intellectual property violations tainted negotiations of the agreement in 1984 when the FBI...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2009-05-10)
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