Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Salazar, Davd
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, 20, Reviving the WTO, https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/reviving-the-wto/, Brookings, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a nonresident distinguished fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. She is an economist and international development expert with over 30 years of experience.
The World Trade Organization is in the news mostly for the wrong reasons nowadays.
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members' political will, determination, and flexibility—needed to revive it.
WTO https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04c_e.htm, Article 27.1, Section 5 on patents, World trade Organization, WTO, Part II — Standards concerning the availability, scope and use of Intellectual Property Rights
Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3, patents shall be available for
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, the field of technology and whether products are imported or locally produced.
The WTO's appellate body no longer exists to mediate disputes, without immediate buy in by states, and no mechanism to make disobedient states obey, the system collapses
Horton, 08/3, Lessons from Trump's assault on the World Trade Organization, https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/08/lessons-trumps-assault-world-trade-organization, Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank, Communications Manager; Project Lead, Common Futures Conversations
The WTO is unique amongst international institutions because it has a powerful enforcement mechanism –
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70 years, but since Trump, it has become its leading saboteur.
Bacchus 20 ~James Bacchus, member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida, 12-16-2020, "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines~~/Kankee
In a sign of their increasing frustration with global efforts to ensure that all people
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even though they do not have the permission of the patent holders.8
Raymond J. Waldmann, Corporate Counsel and Secretary for AuBeta Networks Inc and former vice president of international relations and as director of government affairs for The Boeing Company and assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce for international economic policy (1981-83) and chair of the Seattle Host Committees for the 1999 WTO Ministerial Meeting, "WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION IMPORTANT TO CITIZENS OF CITY AND STATE, Seattle-Post Intelligencer, 5/11/99,
The answer is simple: Because trade matters to the U.S. economy
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Hull said, "When goods do not cross borders, armies do."
Hamann 09 ~Georgia; 2009; J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University Law School; "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System," VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW, http://www.jogoremoto.pt/docs/extra/duqJ53.pdf~~ Justin
Both Antigua and the U.S. claimed the resolution of the arbitration as
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keenly aware of the responsibility they have to uphold the organization's credibility.108