China’s effort to promote “indigenous innovation” systematically favors products and...
China’s effort to promote “indigenous innovation” systematically favors products and services of that country’s companies over those of foreign companies, especially in the government and public procurement markets, the Telecommunications Industry Association said. It commented on China’s compliance with its…
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World Trade Organization obligations, in a filing Monday with the U.S. Trade Representative (http://xrl.us/bnrods). TIA said piracy and counterfeiting remain high due to inadequate penalties, uncoordinated enforcement among local, provincial and national authorities, and the lack of transparency in China’s administrative and criminal enforcement system. Companies that are members of the U.S. Information Trade Office continue to be concerned about governmental interference in licensing agreements, they said. USITO was begun by TIA, the Software and Information Industry Association and American Electronics Association (now TechAmerica) in 1994, in cooperation with the International Trade Administration. China is aggressively implementing and utilizing technical standards to support development of key industries, especially the ICT industry, TIA said. It said China’s current type of approval process for telecom equipment is not sufficiently transparent and is burdensome.