Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Princeton VC | Judge: Datti, Abhilash
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
Hopewell and Horton 08-03 ~Kristen Hopewell Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy at the University of British Columbia, and Ben Horton, Communications Manager; Project Lead, Common Futures Conversations, 08-03-2021, "Lessons from Trump's assault on the World Trade Organization," Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank, https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/08/lessons-trumps-assault-world-trade-organization~~/Kankee
What has this episode revealed about the strength of multilateral institutions such as the WTO
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WTO's future look like under new director-general Dr Okonjo-Iweala?