Law-ref.org Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
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... Desiring to reduce distortions and impediments to international trade, and taking into account the need to promote effective and adequate protection of intellectual property rights, and to ensure that measures and procedures to enforce intellectual property rights do not themselves become barriers to legitimate trade; ...
... Recognizing the need for a multilateral framework of principles, rules and disciplines dealing with international trade in counterfeit goods; ...


... Members agree to cooperate with each other with a view to eliminating international trade in goods infringing intellectual property rights. For this purpose, they shall establish and notify contact points in their administrations and be ready to exchange information on trade in infringing goods. They shall, in particular, promote the exchange of information and cooperation between customs authorities with regard to trade in counterfeit trademark goods and pirated copyright goods. ...