Before the Office of the United States Trade Representative

4 publishers a benefit rather than harm” and that “[t]he fee also has a negative impact for consumers, due to the reduction in the consumption of news and the increase in search time.”15 Another academic study also looked at the failure of Spain’s and Germany’s ancillary rights legislation, observing that the snippet taxes led to a decrease in visits to online news publications. [...] The report noted that the shutdown of Google News in Spain “decreased the number of daily visits to Spanish news outlets by 14%” and that “effect of the opt-in policy adopted by the German edition of Google News in October of 2014. [...] The Treasurer must also consider if the platform has made a significant contribution to the sustainability of the Australian 15 NERA Economic Consulting, Impact on Competition and on Free Market of the Google Tax, Report for the Spanish Association of Publishers of Periodical Publications (AEEPP), (2017), available at (INGLES).pdf. [...] National legislation should follow the terms of the Directive as closely as possible in order to ensure the maximum harmonization of rules in the EU and respect the exceptions and limitations inserted in the Directive (including the exceptions inserted in the Directive in Article 15 which allow linking and short news extracts to be posted 20 Australian Regulations Detrimental to the Digital Econom. [...] USTR cited this discrepancy in its inclusion of Peru in the 2020 Special 301 report, and CCIA supports its inclusion in the 2024 Special 301 Report.49 CCIA urges USTR to engage with Peru and push for full implementation of the trade agreement and establish intermediary protections within the parameters of the PTPA.