FC: U.S. assails Ukraine, releases "watch list" of pirate havens

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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"U.S. says Ukraine turns blind eye to piracy, levies tariffs"
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"Priority Watch List":
Argentina 
Brazil
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Egypt
EU
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Israel
Lebanon
Philippines
Russia
Taiwan
Uruguay

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http://www.ustr.gov/reports/2002/special301.htm

   2002 Special 301 Index --> Priority Foreign Country
   PRIORITY FOREIGN COUNTRY 
   
   UKRAINE
   
   The U.S. Government withdrew benefits from Ukraine under the
   Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in August 2001, and imposed
   $75 million worth of sanctions on Ukrainian imports on January 23,
   2002, based on the repeated failure of Ukraine to comply with the June
   2000 Joint Action Plan. Ukraine unfortunately enacted an
   unsatisfactory optical disk (OD) law in February 2002. The U.S.
   Government has worked with industry to develop an approach to improve
   the actual enforcement of copyright protection even with this
   inadequate OD law. To that end, the United States, in cooperation with
   Ukraine and industry officials, has developed a set of ten regulations
   to be implemented to improve the inadequate OD law. We hope to see
   Ukraine implement the substance of these regulations soon and follow
   up with strict enforcement of the current OD law. At the same time,
   the United States remains committed to working with Ukraine to address
   the remaining deficiencies in the existing OD law and thereby work
   toward reestablishing normal trade relations.



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