China accepts WTO ruling on entertainment goods

News July 14, 2010 By Reuters GENEVA– China has agreed to open up its market for entertainment goods by March 19 next year in line with a World Trade Organization ruling, China and the United States said on Wednesday. The United States had challenged China’s barriers to imports and distribution of books, music, films and [...]

FAC’s challenge to China’s Internet censorship weighed by US Trade Rep

Top US trade representative Ron Kirk says U.S. trade officials are in talks with Google and other Internet providers on FAC’s proposal to challenge China’s Internet censorship via the World Trade Organization (WTO). dh U.S. weighing China Internet censorship case (Related News: Q+A: Is there a WTO case against Chinese Internet censorship?) (Reuters) – The [...]

Google would welcome government support in challenging Chinese censorhip

Google wants the Obama administration to take China’s censorship of Google to the World Trade Organization as an unfair barrier to trade. -db Bloomberg News March 3, 2010 By Mark Drajem (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration is weighing the merits of taking China’s censorship of Google Inc. to the World Trade Organization as an unfair [...]

Obama administration weighs FAC proposal to challenge China’s internet censorship in WTO

FAC Executive Director Peter Scheer describes the administration’s interest as “an important step,” and details FAC’s position on the issue:”We believe that China’s censorship of the internet is not only a human rights issue but also a free trade issue. “That’s why FAC petitioned the US Trade Representative to challenge the firewall before the WTO. [...]

Obama should back up Google with more than rhetoric: The US should challenge China’s “firewall” before the WTO.

PETER SCHEER—The US government is not powerless to influence China’s policies for censoring the internet. As Google has taken extraordinary steps–bordering on corporate civil disobedience–to challenge China’s stranglehold on the flow of information to and among its people, the Obama administration has acted as though its hands were tied. In fact, however, the administration does [...]