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icy Watch: Brief Analysis of the Intellectual Property Sections of Three Influential International Trade Agreements and one Bilateral Trade Agreement

Comparison of Status of the Intellectual Property
Sections in the CPTPP, RCEP, CAI and ETA

撖寞????CPTPP??CEP??AI??TA???霂?漣???????唬?

The intellectual property section of RCEP is in Chapter RCEP??PTPP???霂?漣?????????鈭?????
11, after the chapters on trade in goods, rules of origin, 蝡??蝚?????嚗???亥?鈭扳?蝡???????揮?抵晴
customs procedures and trade facilitation, trade and ????絲?喟?摨??韐豢?靘踹??????韏?????∟晴??
trade in services, etc., which indicates that the essence of 蝑??霂湔?RCEP??PTPP??捶?其?韐豢?嚗??霂?漣
RCEP and CPTPP is trade, and the intellectual prop- ?????蛹韐豢????????TA撘?蝭??銝?蝡?停???霂?
erty portion serves trade. However, the first chapter of 鈭扳?嚗?”???霂?漣???銝??韐豢?靚??銝??鈭??銝?
the ETA is intellectual property, which makes it evident ??????雿??蝢??銝交??喳?銝???亥?鈭扳?靽????
that intellectual property is highly important in the ?扯?銝???賬??
China-US trade negotiations, and the US is seriously
concerned with the performance and implementation CAI???????????葉?亥?鈭扳?撟園???????嚗???
of China?? intellectual property protection. ????賭???????甈整??AI????????憸??嚗????
In the current revealed content of CAI, intellectual 韐豢?憸??嚗??霂?漣??僎??AI??蜓閬??瘜函???
property is scattered in each clause, instead of being
made in a separate section. CAI focused on investment
area rather than trade area. Therefore, intellectual prop-
erty is not a main focus of CAI.

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