Intellectual property provisions and support for US trade agreements

Iain Osgood () and Yilang Feng ()
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Iain Osgood: University of Michigan
Yilang Feng: University of Michigan

The Review of International Organizations, 2018, vol. 13, issue 3, No 4, 455 pages

Abstract: Abstract Intellectual property rights are a key piece of the expanded trade agenda, and the United States has pushed hard to strengthen protections beyond WTO standards in its trade agreements. While agreement provisions governing intellectual property are commonly thought to be an important driver of corporate preferences over US trade policy, systematic empirical evidence for this proposition, especially in comparison to other determinants of trade policy, is generally lacking. To fill this void, this paper examines variation in reliance on intellectual property across US industries to explain attitudes and lobbying on US trade agreements. The effects of IP provisions on support for US trade agreements are politically substantial, though trade remains the primary determinant of preferences over trade agreements.

Keywords: Intellectual property; Intellectual property rights (IPRs); TRIPS; Trade agreements; Firms; Associations; Services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 F13 F53 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11558-017-9279-y

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