Trade issues regarding space products and services

With the commercialisation and privatisation of space activities in a context of globalisation, also specific international trade issues come to play a major role in determining the feasibility and profitability of space activities and their applications. What barriers are there to international trade in space products and services, and how can they be lowered? What institutional powers does the World Trade Organization (WTO) have in the various sectors – and what should it have? How do bilateral or multilateral trade agreements – up to the EU Internal Market – interfere with international possibilities for market access? How can the use of intellectual property right protection schemes impact the possibilities to trade across frontiers? Do the various instruments for dispute settlement work satisfactorily in this arena?

The above and other questions are eminently suitable to be solved with the help of Black Holes: especially at the international level that is currently of concern, Black Holes can avail itself of considerable expertise as testified by a number of projects in its portfolio.