#TPP encourages registration of smells as trademarks. Consumer information in the smell of fresh bread, mown lawns, the aroma of VW exhaust?
On first reading, no surprises in IP chapter: elaborate, intrusive, overlong restrictions on enterprise for the sake of narrow private gain.
#TPP preserves the xenophobic, superfluous irritations of AU foreign investment “review” (Services & Investment annexes as N-C measures).
The negative-list AU services schedule in the AU-CHN FTA was apparently lifted from the #TPP schedule (surprise!). Looks very similar.
Hoorah! AU Tariff goes to zero (afaics) under #TPP… Still, Art. 6.8.1 preserves the foul inventions of Anti-dumping permitted by #WTO
bbaschuk #TPP Text Available Here: bit.ly/1kcevzs
Higher deposit rates may be needed if China’s 2-child policy increases supply of brides, cuts dowry competition?::on.ft.com/1Ns3KnU
Summers seems to say “Keynesian macro must work, else what wd be the point of it?” Yup! :: https://t.co/ARfdXnn7rl
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