NTA excerpts some of passages of most interest to US textile trade

05 Apr '10

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China was listed on the Priority Watch List in the 2009 Special 301 report because of continuing concerns regarding IPR protection and enforcement. Key concerns listed in the report included unacceptable levels of retail and wholesale counterfeiting, as well as persistently high-levels of book and journal piracy, end-user piracy of business software, and copyright piracy over the Internet. The report describes these enforcement-related concerns and summarizes the legal difficulties right holders face when attempting to assert their IPR rights in China.

The lack of deterrent penalties and other policies, such as barriers to the market for legitimate products, contribute to the poor record on reducing IPR crime in China. The report also recognizes industry concerns about the possibility that laws or policies in a variety of fields might be used to unfairly favor domestic intellectual property (IP) over foreign IP, including procurement preferences for products with domestically developed IP, the treatment of IPR in setting standards, and reports that officials, apparently motivated by the financial crisis and the need to maintain jobs, are urging more lenient enforcement of IPR laws.

National Textile Association

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