INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ON COUNTERFEITING PART OF GLOBAL PUSH AGAINST FAKE PARTS AND VEHICLES
July 1st, 2008
BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE AUTOPARTS and automotive industries are calling for far tighter world-wide enforcement against counterfeiting, as influential countries meet in Geneva to thrash out more details of a global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
First mooted by the Office of the US Trade Representative in October 2007- and pursued aggressively by the US Chamber of Commerce - Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates have since come on board to try to ...
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