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U.S. Trade Representative

An official in the United States with ambassadorial rank who is responsible for conducting trade negotiations and recommending policy to the president. The trade representative reports annually on countries that do not protect intellectual property or that pursue other policies that make trades difficult. The office of the trade representative is based in Washington, D.C., with satellite offices in Geneva and Brussels.
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In response to criticism about the openness of the trade negotiating process, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) recently published a draft text of the nine chapters of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement.
USTR Releases Draft of FTAA Agreement
The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a joint report in November concluding that Accelerated Tariff Liberation (ATL) in the forest products sector will have no negative environmental impact in the United States.
ATL Found to Have Small Environmental Impact
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The report said that the United States Trade Representative (USTR) was working with Pakistan to develop action plans to address the issues discussed in the report.
Pakistan retained on US intellectual property rights 'priority watch list'
Acting United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis welcomed in a statement the consensus of the 159 Members of the WTO in choosing Roberto Azevedo as the body's next Director-General.
U.S. welcomes new WTO chief
Summary: BEIRUT: The International Intellectual Property Alliance, an organization representing more than 1,900 companies that produce and distribute copyright-protected materials throughout the world, has asked the United States Trade Representative to keep Lebanon on the Watch List for serious infringements of intellectual property rights and severe copyright problems
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(ECO) TURKEY, USA DRAW STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS
THE UNITED States Trade Representative (USTR) office has launched a swingeing attack on the European Union's (EU) negotiating position at the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha Development Round agricultural talks.
WTO USTR USA EU Doha Development Round criticism agricultural talks

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