Two of the top Democrats on the House...
Two of the top Democrats on the House Committee on Ways and Means urged the U.S. Trade Representative in a letter made public on Friday (http://1.usa.gov/Xey5y8) to reprimand China for engaging in cybertheft of U.S. trade secrets. Based on China’s…
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“breach of its [World Trade Organization] obligations,” Acting USTR Demetrios Marantis should designate China a “priority foreign country” in the USTR’s Special 301 list of countries with inadequate IP protections, the letter said. The letter was sent by Ranking Member Sander Levin, D-Mich., and Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade Ranking Member Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. “It looks very much as though the Chinese government is stealing our companies’ trade secrets and passing them along to their [state-owned enterprises] and possibly other Chinese companies,” the letter said. “We have known for some time that the government of China does not do enough to enforce the intellectual property of U.S. innovators in China. But government-sponsored theft of trade secrets would put China in an entirely different category.”