USTR Seeks Comments For Annual Report on Foreign Trade Barriers

The U.S. Trade Representative has called for comments for the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE). The report, published each year “sets out an inventory of the most significant foreign barriers affecting U.S. exports of goods and services, including agricultural commodities, U.S. intellectual property, U.S. foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if such investment has implications for trade in goods or services, and U.S. electronic commerce.”

The call for comments lists ” inadequate patent, copyright, and trademark regimes and inadequate enforcement of intellectual property rights” as one of the types of “foreign trade barriers” it will investigate.

The deadline for comments is October 31. For more information, and instructions for submitting comments, see the Federal Register Notice.

The docket number for comments and the report on regulations.gov is USTR-2019-0012 .

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    Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.

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