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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 09:42:47 PDT

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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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