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Alix Town authored “Lost In Translation: Marrying Oregon CCB Licensing Requirements With The World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement”

Mon Nov 25, 2019

Alix Town recently authored “Lost In Translation: Marrying Oregon CCB Licensing Requirements With The World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement” for the Oregon State Bar Association Construction Law Newsletter.

With the United Nations week in September, news feeds are filled with stories about multi-national efforts to combat the world’s global problems such as climate change. These multi-national efforts are often times memorialized with grand agreements, which eventually are intended to be instituted at the state and sub-state level. However, the intended commitments of these agreements can be, and sometimes are, lost in translation.

One such agreement is the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement (“GPA”). The GPA is an agreement between certain WTO member states to open government procurement to international competition based on the concept that governments benefit more from increased competition and free trade within their procurement markets than from protectionist measures. Continue reading here.