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The situation described at the end of the article actually happened last year. A shipment of generic drugs going from India to Brazil got confiscated in Amsterd
by forinti 16y ago
The situation described at the end of the article actually happened last year. A shipment of generic drugs going from India to Brazil got confiscated in Amsterdam although they are perfectly legal in both countries.
The point of the matter is that legislation is tied to jurisdiction and some multinationals would like to be free from this restriction. We seem to have reached the point in which people believe IP to be a natural and universal right.
If rich countries push this hard enough, we might see less commerce going through their ports.
- jimbokun 16y agoIt would be interesting to see shipping routes set up that deliberately avoid the large economies supporting ACTA. It could conceivably become a competitive advantage for "emerging" economies like Brazil, India, Russia, and China develop their own trade agreements among themselves, and leave the ACTA countries out. They would probably have more leverage, then, to negotiate better terms with the ACTA nations.