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| – | Over the next year the United States will step up its efforts with these 17 Watch List countries to resolve problems associated with inadequate intellectual property protection or barriers to market access. |
| – | Countries on the Watch List include: |
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Argentina |
Indonesia |
Portugal |
PRIORITY WATCH LIST
| – | Beyond the 17 countries on the Watch List, the USTR determined that the following eight trading partners maintain acts, policies, or practices that satisfy some or all of the statutory criteria for priority country identification. However, because they have made progress in recent bilateral or multilateral negotiations, they will not be identified as priority countries under the statute at this time: |
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Brazil |
Republic of Korea |
| – | These eight trading partners have been placed on a Priority Watch List. Accelerated action plans for resolving any outstanding issues will be pursued with each of them over the next 150 days. Those plans are attached. |
| – | The status of each of these eight trading partners under Special 301 will again be reviewed by no later than November 1, 1989, taking into account the extent to which the objectives of the accelerated action, plans have been achieved. |
RECENT PROGRESS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MATTERS
| – | In the course of carrying out the review under Special 301, the USTR noted that extensive U.S. efforts in recent years to obtain strengthened intellectual property protection around the world for relevant U.S. products had contributed to substantial gains in a number of countries. The USTR also noted that the focus of these intellectual property efforts in trade negotiations coincided with the inclusion |
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