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Australia
Australia Council for the Arts
World trade and arts and culture.
http://www.ozco.gov.au/issues/trade/index.htm
Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association
The Industry Issues section explores the impact of an FTA on digital content.
http://www.aimia.com.au/
Australian Screen Directors Association (ASDA)
The White Papers section features an index of submissions to the FTA and World Trade Organization negotiations from ASDA and the Australian Coalition for Cultural Diversity (ACCD).
http://www.asdafilm.org.au/
Australian Writers Guild
http://www.awg.com.au
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
http://www.dfat.gov.au
DFAT: Trade Home Page
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/index.html
DFAT: Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement Homepage
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us.html
DFAT: Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement Briefing
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us_fta/newsletter/index.html
DFAT: World Trade Organisation Homepage
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/index.html
DFAT: Advancing the National Interest
Australia's Foreign and Trade Policy White Paper
http://www.dfat.gov.au/ani/index.html
Free To Be Australian: Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance
http://www.alliance.org.au/free2baustralian
Minister for Trade, the Hon. Mark Vaile, MP
http://www.trademinister.gov.au/
Speeches
http://www.trademinister.gov.au/speeches/index.html
Media Releases
http://www.trademinister.gov.au/releases/index.html
Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA)
The News section features comments by Geoff Brown, Executive Director, on the FTA.
http://www.spaa.org.au/
Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade is currently undertaking reviews into Australia's Foreign and Trade Policy Strategy Advancing the National Interest (http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/fadt_ctte/white_paper/index.htm) and into the General Agreement on Trade in Services and Australia/US Free Trade Agreement. (http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/fadt_ctte/gats/index.htm)
Treaties library
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat
International
AAFTAC: The American-Australian Free Trade Agreement Coalition
The American-Australian Free Trade Agreement Coalition (AAFTAC) membership consists of organisations and businesses that represent a broad range of industries and economic interests in the U.S. Members of AAFTAC are dedicated to promoting a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and Australia.
http://www.aaftac.org/
ACP
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. About 70 countries with preferential trading relations with the EC.
http://www.acpsec.org
APEC: Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation forum
http://www.apec.org
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
The six ASEAN members of the WTO-Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand-usually speak in the WTO as one group on general issues.
http://www.aseansec.org
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
WTO information page.
http://www.dev.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/tna-nac/wto-en.asp
EU: European Union
http://europa.eu.int
EFTA: European Free Trade Association
http://secretariat.efta.int
G15
Group of 15 developing countries acting as the main political organ for the Non-Aligned Movement.
http://www.photius.com/g15/g15.html
G8
Group of eight leading industrial countries.
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/econ/group8/homepage.htm
http://www.g7.utoronto.ca
G77
Group of developing countries set up in 1964 at the end of the first UNCTAD (originally 77, but now more than 130 countries).
http://www.g77.org
ICCD: International Network for Cultural Diversity
http://www.incd.net
ICCP: International Network for Cultural Policy
http://incp-ripc.org/
MPA: Motion Picture Association
http://www.mpaa.org
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
http://www.ustr.gov/index.html
UN: United Nations
http://www.un.org
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
http://www.unesco.org
Uruguay Round
Multilateral trade negotiations launched at Punta del Este, Uruguay in September 1986 and concluded in Geneva in December 1993. Signed by Ministers in Marrakesh, Morocco in April 1994.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1995/810.html#fn0
USTR: United States Trade Representative
http://www.ustr.gov
USTR: Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement Homepage
http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/australia.htm
WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organisation
http://www.wipo.org
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
http://www.wto.org
Conventions, Treaties & Free Trade Agreements
Berne Convention Treaty
Administered by WIPO, for the protection of the intellectual property rights of authors in their literary and artistic works.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1995/810.html#fn0
GATS: General Agreement on Trade in Services
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/serve_e/qatsintr_e.htm
GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Superseded by the WTO.
http://www.gatt.org and http://www.solon.org/Treaties/GATT/index.html {http://www.solon.org/Treaties/GATT/index.html}
GATT 1947
The old version of the GATT.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1948/23.html
GATT 1994
The new version of the General Agreement, incorporated into the WTO, which governs trade in goods.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1995/8.html
Paris Convention
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Treaty 1883, administered by WIPO, for the protection of industrial intellectual property, ie patents, utility models, industrial designs, etc.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1972/12.html
Rome Convention Treaty
Administered by WIPO, UNESCO and ILO, for the protection of the works of performers, broadcasting organizations and producers of phonograms.
http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs/en/wo/wo024en.htm
SAFTA: Singapore Australia Free Trade Agreement
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/australia_singapore_agreement.html
Text: http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/safta/index.html
TRIPS: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/trips_e.htm
USCI: United States Coalition of Service Industries
http://www.uscsi.org
US-Chile Free Trade Agreement
http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/chile.htm
Text: http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Chile/final/index.htm
US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/singapore.htm
Text: http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Singapore/final.htm
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