US Gov. Releases Six Pages On Secret ACTA Pact

narramissic writes “Change is afoot at the Office of the US Trade Representative. New details have been released about an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement that has been discussed in secret among the US, Japan, the European Union and other countries since 2006. Although the six-page summary (PDF) provides little in the way of specific detail about the current state of negotiations, the release represents a change in policy at the USTR, which had argued in the past that information on the trade pact was ‘properly classified in the interest of national security.'” Michael Geist has a timeline that puts together more details about the ACTA negotiations than any government has so far been willing to reveal.

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