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in late
September(11).
Separately, the US
Administration
decided to extend by three months the
deadline of 26 November 1991 to determine whether to impose
trade sanctions on China under the Special 301 trade law,
if no significant progress on the protection of
intellectual property right is shown(12)
10.
It
•
now appears that the World Bank is no longer
constrained by the criteria of satisfying basic human needs
and making environmental improvement in extending loans to
loans recently approved by the Bank were
both infrastructural development and
China.
conducive
The
to
(11) This
package
included lowering the import tariffs on more than 50 imported products from 1 January 1992 onwards (most of them are American made); abolishing the import licences on a number of products ranging from machinery to electronic goods in six months, with a plan to eliminate about two-thirds of the import licences within three years; publicising China's internal trade rules; participating in the United Nations' conference
on the protection of intellectual property rights in 1992; and entering into bilateral · trade negotiations with the United States.
The US Administration found these measures inadequate as substantial trade barriers would still exist.
(12)
Claims by the United States regarding infringement were mainly related to copyrights for computer software and patents for US pharmaceutical and chemical products. Probably in the light of this, a committee was recently established under the State Council for the formulation and enforcement of laws involving intellectual property.
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