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US piracy case will harm trade ties: China
www.chinanews.cn 2007-04-25 10:02:39
(Source: China Daily)
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi speaks at an intellectual property forum in
Beijing on Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
Apr.25 - US-filing complaints to the WTO over alleged commercial piracy
in China will "badly damage" cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on
Tuesday, saying that China has made great strides in protecting patents
and copyrights.
Earlier this month, Washington launched two cases at the World Trade
Organization claiming that China was not doing enough to punish illegal
copiers of films and music and that its restrictions on entertainment
imports violated trade rules.
Beijing has denounced Washington's move and Madame Wu, who heads the
country's economic dialogue with Washington, bluntly warned that the
complaints would damage bilateral trade ties.
"The United States Trade Representative, the USTR, has totally ignored
the massive strides China has made," Wu told an intellectual property
forum in Beijing.
The US action "flies in the face of the agreement between the two
countries' leaders to propose dialogue as a way of settling disputes," Wu
said, adding that never before had a WTO member simultaneously mounted
two cases against another country.
"This will have an utterly negative impact and will inevitably badly
damage bilateral intellectual property cooperation," she said, while also
warning it would "harm" cooperation over market access issues.
"The Chinese government is extremely dissatisfied about this, but we will
proactively respond according to the related WTO rules and see it through
to the end," Wu said.
On Monday, China sought to demonstrate its determination to stop piracy
by releasing an intellectual property action plan.
Last year, the country formally joined the World Intellectual Property
Organization Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms
Treaty. On July 1, 2006, it also implemented regulations on the
protection of the right of communication through information networks.
China will also draft and implement 14 laws on intellectual property
rights and usage, and issue explanations and guiding policies for
handling IP violation cases, according to a government notice.
Wu defended China's record of combating piracy, pointing out that 988
people were arrested for IP infringement last year and that courts heard
6,441 IP cases.
"Over the last few years, the amount of manpower and work that China has
put into protecting intellectual property rights and the results that
have been achieved, have been unprecedented," she said.
"Every year we have nationwide events to protect intellectual property
and we have always kept up the pressure on the pirates. The effects of
this clean-up get better every year."
However, Wu admitted a lot of work lay ahead.
"At the moment, China's burden is heavy and the road is long, with
relatively little of its own intellectual property, weak competitiveness,
continuous piracy disputes and a prominence of fake products," she said.
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