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<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear AIBEc
students,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Through an exchange
agreement between AIBEc and Pericles, we can offer up to 3 seats in the
International Trade Law and Policy seminar which will be starting this
Thursday. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Students should pay AIBEc at the normal AIBEc rate and will get credit
towards AIBEc graduation. The course will be offered at Pericles, 1st
Miusskaya Ul #22-3 (5 minutes from Novoslobodskaya & Mendeleevskaya Metro
stations). The course is 19:00-22:00 every
Thursday, starting this Thursday and going until December 18.
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<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=687195514-22092008>The course</SPAN> will examine import and export
regimes and policies, including most favored nation and national treatment
principles, WTO and GATT rules restraining national trade restrictions, such as
tariff and non-tariff barriers, anti-dumping, countervailing duties and
safeguard measures, trade in intellectual property (TRIPS) and trade related
investment measures (TRIMS). The course will cover the WTO dispute resolution
process and will examine actual trade disputes that are making their way through
dispute resolution channels. To the extent time allows the class will also
examine the process of WTO accession, social and economic issues related to
globalization, and Russia 's future WTO membership. </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial size=2>No prior legal knowledge is
required, although having already taken Professor Lissniak's business law
course at AIBEc would be very helpful</FONT></DIV></SPAN>
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<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The professor
is Antonio Parenti, who is currently a Senior Manager at Severstal and
before that was First Secretary at the Delegation of the European Commission in
Moscow where he followed the process of accession of Russia to the WTO as well
as the macroeconomic and energy questions. He has also worked in the Directorate
General for Trade of the European Commission. Mr. Parenti holds a MA in
International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies, Washington D.C. ( USA ), a LL.M in European Law and a Law Degree both
from the University of Bologna ( Italy ). He regularly lectures and writes on
WTO & trade issues and he is a lecturer of International Trade Law at
the University of Bologna. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Students will need
to purchase the book: Trebilcock & & Howse “The Regulation of
International Trade”, 3rd Edition, Routledge 2005, which is available at
Pericles for the cost of 2000 rubles.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial size=2>To enroll or to get
more information please contact me (Marian Dent, <A
href="mailto:mdent@pericles.ru">mdent@pericles.ru</A>) or call me at
495-649-2273. As spaces for this exchange agreement are limited please do
not try to enroll in the course at AIBEc or at Pericles without
first hearing from me.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=687195514-22092008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Marian</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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