each country’s Uruguay Round market access 
schedule; 
(T) ensuring transparency in the adminis-
tration of tariff rate quotas through multilateral, 
plurilateral, and bilateral negotiations; and 
(U) eliminating and preventing the under-
mining of market access for United States prod-
ucts through improper use of a country’s system 
for protecting or recognizing geographical indi-
cations, including failing to ensure transparency 
and procedural fairness and protecting generic 
terms. 
(4) FOREIGN
INVESTMENT.—Recognizing that 
United States law on the whole provides a high level 
of protection for investment, consistent with or great-
er than the level required by international law, the 
principal negotiating objectives of the United States 
regarding foreign investment are to reduce or elimi-
nate artificial or trade distorting barriers to foreign 
investment, while ensuring that foreign investors in 
the United States are not accorded greater substantive 
rights with respect to investment protections than 
United States investors in the United States, and to 
secure for investors important rights comparable to 
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those that would be available under United States 
legal principles and practice, by— 
(A) reducing or eliminating exceptions to 
the principle of national treatment; 
(B) freeing the transfer of funds relating to 
investments; 
(C) reducing or eliminating performance re-
quirements, forced technology transfers, and 
other unreasonable barriers to the establishment 
and operation of investments; 
(D) seeking to establish standards for expro-
priation and compensation for expropriation, 
consistent with United States legal principles 
and practice; 
(E) seeking to establish standards for fair 
and equitable treatment, consistent with United 
States legal principles and practice, including 
the principle of due process; 
(F) providing meaningful procedures for re-
solving investment disputes; 
(G) seeking to improve mechanisms used to 
resolve disputes between an investor and a gov-
ernment through— 
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(i) mechanisms to eliminate frivolous 
claims and to deter the filing of frivolous 
claims; 
(ii) procedures to ensure the efficient 
selection of arbitrators and the expeditious 
disposition of claims; 
(iii) procedures to enhance opportuni-
ties for public input into the formulation of 
government positions; and 
(iv) providing for an appellate body or 
similar mechanism to provide coherence to 
the interpretations of investment provisions 
in trade agreements; and 
(H) ensuring the fullest measure of trans-
parency in the dispute settlement mechanism, to 
the extent consistent with the need to protect in-
formation that is classified or business confiden-
tial, by— 
(i) ensuring that all requests for dis-
pute settlement are promptly made public; 
(ii) ensuring that— 
(I) all proceedings, submissions, 
findings, and decisions are promptly 
made public; and 
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(II) all hearings are open to the 
public; and 
(iii) establishing a mechanism for ac-
ceptance of amicus curiae submissions from 
businesses, unions, and nongovernmental or-
ganizations. 
(5) INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY.—The principal 
negotiating objectives of the United States regarding 
trade-related intellectual property are— 
(A) to further promote adequate and effec-
tive protection of intellectual property rights, in-
cluding through— 
(i)(I) ensuring accelerated and full im-
plementation of the Agreement on Trade-Re-
lated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 
referred to in section 101(d)(15) of the Uru-
guay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 
3511(d)(15)), particularly with respect to 
meeting enforcement obligations under that 
agreement; and 
(II) ensuring that the provisions of 
any trade agreement governing intellectual 
property rights that is entered into by the 
United States reflect a standard of protec-
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tion similar to that found in United States 
law; 
(ii) providing strong protection for 
new and emerging technologies and new 
methods of transmitting and distributing 
products embodying intellectual property, 
including in a manner that facilitates le-
gitimate digital trade; 
(iii) preventing or eliminating dis-
crimination with respect to matters affect-
ing the availability, acquisition, scope, 
maintenance, use, and enforcement of intel-
lectual property rights; 
(iv) ensuring that standards of protec-
tion and enforcement keep pace with techno-
logical developments, and in particular en-
suring that rightholders have the legal and 
technological means to control the use of 
their works through the Internet and other 
global communication media, and to pre-
vent the unauthorized use of their works; 
(v) providing strong enforcement of in-
tellectual property rights, including through 
accessible, expeditious, and effective civil, 
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