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91快活林 today hosted Ambassador Terry Kramer for his final media event in his position as the lead聽of the U.S. delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). 聽We've talked about WCIT many times before on this blog. 聽At that meeting, held in Dubai in early December, nations struggled over treaty language that carried the potential of allowing the UN to regulate the Internet.聽 [...]
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聽 91快活林's John Neuffer has spent the week in Geneva as global trade negotiators focus on how best to expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA).聽 He sent this update on the discussions. Despite some heavy snow in Geneva this week, WTO negotiators have been busy here with another round of technical talks to expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), an initiative aimed at completely eliminating [...]
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Sparky Anderson, who managed World Series-winning teams in Cincinnati and Detroit, once remarked, 鈥淲e鈥檙e getting close to opening day.聽 I don鈥檛 know if that鈥檚 a good or bad thing.鈥澛� January 3rd, 2013 marked American policymaking鈥檚 opening day:聽 the start of the 113th Congress.聽聽 We in the tech industry see the start of a new season of policymaking as a good thing because ours is an industry rooted [...]
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Today, the President signed into law a bill establishing Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Russia, bringing to closure years of work spent opening the growing Russian market to American goods and services. 聽The new law represents a victory for American workers and businesses, and will deliver a welcome boost to the U.S. economy at a time when it needs it most. The enactment of PNTR legislation [...]
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Today, the tech industry celebrates another critical step towards normal trade relations with Russia as the Senate, by a vote of 92-4, decisively passed legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia.聽聽We commend the Senate for taking swift action today on a bill that ensures enforcement of Russia鈥檚 WTO commitments and puts the needs of American workers and businesses [...]
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Today, the tech industry celebrates the successful House passage of the Russia PNTR legislation.聽 We commend the House for acting in a strong bipartisan fashion to put the needs of American businesses and workers first. 聽The final vote tally was 365-43.聽 Now it鈥檚 the Senate鈥檚 turn.聽 Majority Leader Reid has stated that passing Russia PNTR is on his agenda for the lame duck session of congress.聽 Let鈥檚 [...]
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Next week, President Obama will leave Washington for a three-nation trip to Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia.聽 Media reports聽ahead of the trip note that Thailand is likely to announce its interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations which have been gaining momentum.聽 While in Cambodia, the President will participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings [...]
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Now that we've turned the page on the campaign season, Congress has the opportunity to focus on measures that will help revitalize the American economy.聽 This week, we see an opportunity to do exactly that as the House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation that would establish a permanent, normal trade relationship (PNTR) with Russia and waive outdated Cold War-era emigration laws that [...]
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The leaders of APEC 21 economies gathering in Vladivostok over the weekend made good progress toward promoting growth and innovation around the world.聽 For the tech industry, a big boost came with the inclusion of this pearl in the 2012 Leaders鈥� Declaration: "We welcome the ongoing work to expand the product coverage and membership of the WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA) and instruct our [...]
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AMD, a semiconductor design company with growing operations in Brazil, recently hosted ICT Brazilian ministers and officials at its Silicon Valley headquarters to discuss emerging computing market trends. Attendees discussed the importance of open standards and regulatory policies to drive innovation, and today鈥檚 data center, cloud, embedded, client and ultra-low power technology solutions. Initiated [...]
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