New Coalition Focusing on Trade Barriers to Exports Reliant on IP
Trade groups that have been active in pushing for different intellectual property approaches in India have formed a new coalition called the Alliance for Trade Enforcement, they announced May 13. Brian Pomper, a former Senate Finance Committee chief trade counsel,…
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is the AFTE executive director. The group includes manufacturing trade groups, pharmaceutical interests, software and telecom interests, and the National Foreign Trade Council and U.S. Council for International Business. They noted that the Special 301 Report recently released by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative identified 33 countries that don't adequately protect IP rights, and said “many of those countries are repeat offenders.” Pomper said AFTE will work with the administration and Congress to dismantle trade barriers such as high tariffs, complex and opaque taxes targeting imports, and laws that do not give intellectual property the protection that USTR says is proper.