U.S. Presses China to Address IP Concern Amid Tariff Dispute

  • ‘Urgent need’ for China to address IP issues, USTR says
  • USTR adds Canada to priority IP watch list amid Nafta talks
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The U.S. issued a new warning to China on its handling of intellectual property as President Donald Trump prepares to dispatch senior advisers to the Asian nation to head off a trade dispute.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office kept China on its “priority watch list” of countries whose IP practices require monitoring. China has an “urgent need” to fix a range of IP-related concerns, including trade-secret theft, online piracy, and forced technology transfer, USTR said in its annual report on IP protection and enforcement.