WTO ESTABLISHES CHINA COUNTERFEITING DISPUTES PANEL
September 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALLEGED loopholes in China's fight against the counterfeiting of goods will be examined by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes settlement panel, established at the urging of the United States. The committee could tell China to tighten up anti-counterfeiting policing as a breach of world trade law, namely the WTO's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement. Washington alleges in particular that China's lack of criminal procedures and related punishments for commercial scale counterfeiting and piracy break its ...
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