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Uruguay Round Agreements Act
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This work is in the public domain in the
United States
for the following reason:
Public domain
Public domain
false
false
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copyright was not renewed
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), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
