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application of judicial procedures within nation states and provides for
the use of GATT dispute settlement procedures (TRIPS Part V). For
more detail, including GATS exceptions, see Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann,
'International Competition Rules for the GATI-MTO World Trade
and Legal System,' Journal of World Trade, 27(6) (December 1993)
54-9. The Washington-based International Intellectual Property Alli-
ance continues to argue in favor of applying Super-301 and Special-301
legislation as a means 'to smooth away [outstanding] trade barriers.'-
Jay Berman, President of the Recording Industry Association of Amer-
ica, quoted in International Intellectual Property Alliance, 'People's
Republic of China Tops IIPA's Special 301 Target List with Almost
$830 Million in Estimated Losses Due to Piracy' (Washington: IIPA
Press Release, 18 February 1994), p. 3.
59 Keith E, Bernard, 'New Global Network Arrangements, Regulatory
and Trade Considerations,' Telecommunications Policy, 18(5) (July
1994) 390.
60 Woodrow, 'Tilting Towards a Trade Regime,' pp. 329-30.
61 One of the new ITU 'think-tanks' touted in the report was a Business
Advisor Group. Jonathan Solomon, the Director of Corporate Business
Development at the British-based TNC Cable & Wireless, called these
recommendations and the ITU's institutional 'corporate restructuring'
the beginning of its new role as 'the world telecommunication systems
integrator.' Jonathan Solomon, 'The ITU in a Time of Change,' Tele-
communications Policy, 15(4) (August 1991) 375.
62 Woodrow, 'Tilting Towards a Trade Regime,' p. 333.
63 Final Report of the High-Level Committee, Tomorrow's ITU: The
Challenge of Change (Document 145-E, 26 April 1991); emphases
added.
64 Irmer quoted in 'ITU Restructuring Is Intended to Make it More
"Market-Oriented",' Satellite Week, 15(7) (15 February 1993) 5-6.
65 Thomas L. McPhail, 'Inquiry in International Communication' in
Molefi Kete Asante and William B. Gudykunst (eds), Handbook of
International and Intercultural Communication (Newbury Park, Ca.:
Sage, 1989) p. 48.
66 Jill Hills, 'Communication, Information, and Transnational Enterprise,'
in Babe (ed.), Information and Communication in Economics, p. 310.
67 Jones's testimony in Hearings on 'Television Broadcasting and the
European Community,' p. 99.
68 See 'Tune Up for Term Two,' Chronicle of International Communication,
V (6) (July-August 1984) and 7-8; and 'Tracking Red Television Beams;
Chronicle of International Communication, VI (4) (May 1985) 5-6.
69 'Formidable Barriers Seen to Media Trade,' Transnational Data Report,
VIII (1) (January-February 1985) 11.
70 US Department of Commerce, 'Comprehensive Study of the Globaliza-
tion of Mass Media Firms.' Notice of Inquiry issued by National Tele-
communications and Information Administration (February 1990), p. 7.
71 Ibid., pp. 57-9.