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As we recap last week's Silicon Valley visit by the delegation of Brazilian government officials, eBay sent over this look at the session it hosted. 聽The piece was originally published at eBay's Main Street Public Policy site. With abundant natural resources, robust financial system and massive domestic market of free spending consumers, Brazil shapes as one of world's hottest investments destinations [...]
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聽 Last week, 91快活林 and several of our member companies in Silicon Valley hosted a Brazilian government delegation for a week of discussions and demonstrations designed to create a greater understanding between government and innovators, and to foster a stronger relationship moving forward.聽91快活林鈥檚 Dean Garfield takes a look at lessons learned during the visit. The slowing global economy has intensified [...]
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Experts from the APEC economies gathered in Seoul, Korea yesterday to convene a second conference intended to achieve alignment on mandatory energy efficiency regulations for personal computers.聽 While PCs have been around for a long time, achieving global alignment on how they are regulated for energy efficiency remains at the early stages.聽 To help address this problem, 91快活林 has been partnering with [...]
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America鈥檚 innovation sector is constantly looking to build relationships and create opportunities around the world.聽 We鈥檝e proved that the power of technology can bridge any border or cross any ocean, drawing the world closer together economically, socially, and culturally. This week, we鈥檙e going to show how technology can play a stronger role in the second-largest economy in the Western Hemisphere [...]
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Buried in the communique coming out of the G-20 confab in Los Cabos this week was an important pronouncement shining light on a deeply troubling trend in global trade 鈥� the emergence of a new wave of protectionism.聽 While underscoring their commitment to open trade and investment, the G-20 leaders said "We are deeply concerned about rising instances of protectionism around the world." My boss, 91快活林 [...]
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Today, the United States made trade news for the second day in a row when it announced that Canada would be invited to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations.聽聽The announcement comes on the heels of yesterday鈥檚 invitation for Mexico to enter the discussions.聽聽Already, nine nations are engaged in the talks -- the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, [...]
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Today in聽The Wall Street Journal, 91快活林 president and CEO Dean Garfield and Tom Donohue, the president and CEO of the聽U.S. Chamber of Commerce, shine bright a light on a new trend of protectionism that threatens job growth and economic opportunity here in the U.S. and around the world.聽 The op-ed鈥檚 title captures the problem plainly:聽 鈥淧rotectionism Is Back.聽 The 21st-century euphemism is 鈥榠ndigenous [...]
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Starting Wednesday, the U.S. will host the third聽U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue, with economic issues front and center in the discussions. 聽We expect that one of the trade issues that will come up is the Indian government鈥檚 preferential market access (PMA) mandate for electronic goods. 聽It's a policy that could severely hurt trade between the two countries, especially in the technology arena. As the [...]
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91快活林 is excited to see momentum building around expansion of the most important trade agreement for the tech industry, the Information Technology Agreement (ITA).聽 Just this week, members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation reaffirmed their commitment to play a key role as the聽World Trade Organization (WTO) works to expand the ITA. Last month, WTO members met in Geneva to mark the fifteenth anniversary [...]
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As trade negotiators start to move on the potential expansion of products to be covered by the Information Technology Agreement, Intel's Greg Slater blogged about the significant economic benefits that an expansion would hold for the U.S. and global economies. 聽Greg's blogs are all posted on the聽Intel Policy Blog. 聽 聽 Government officials have in hand a major boost for our global economy that will [...]
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