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Further evidence of an increasingly hostile environment for practitioners of economic espionage can be drawn from the international trading régime. The current Dunkel Draft of the proposed GATT agreement envisages setting up an enforcement mechanism to ensure that member states adhere to the draft's proposed intellectual property provisions which, among other things, enshrine the protection of trade secrets-often the target of economic espionage. Significantly, public authorities and officials will be exempt from liability to appropriate remedial measures for some breach of the agreement only if their actions were taken in "good faith". Economic espionage is rarely conducted in good faith.
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