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US, China make slow progress in talks on copyright piracy
BEIJING. Jan -28:. NS and ( hinese negotiators made slow progress in last ditch talks on copyright piracy in China and pledged to work through the weekend in an effort to avert a trade war looming just one week away, reports Reuter.
"Discussions between the US and China on intellectual property rights continue." the US embassy said.
"The talks to-date have been constructive and hardworking. -Negotiations are expected to continue through the weekend.'
China's seven-day lunar new year holiday begins on Mohday. with nearly all public servants enjoying time off the celebrate they year of the pig. But the Chinese negotiators' In the talks may have to sacrifice , their holiday. *■
Washington in pushing Beijing to- improve protection of US copyrights, trademarks and patents, wltlch are' breached at a cost estimated bv US industry at nearly ope billion dollars a year.
US trade representative Mickey Kantor has threatened to impose crippling tariffs on 2.8 billion US dollars worth of Chinese exports after February 4 if Beijing fails to show that it is working effectively to combat piracy.
Washington, also is pressing Beijing to open up a potentially huge market by removing barriers that US moi^e and music industries have found virtually impenetrable.
China rejects the punitive tariffs as patronising bullying and has vowed to retaliate with the trade sanctions #of its own raising the prospect' of a damaging pacific trade war.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Shen Guofang said on Thursday that- the gap between the two sides was "not very big and could be overcome through calm earnest negotiations.
Negotiators returned to, the bargaining table on Tuesday after taking three days to consult senior trade officials over their latest compromise proposals.
US business sources close to the talks say the two sides appeared to be moving towards hplding a final round of talks in Washington in the final days before the sanctions deadline.
They said China hoped to raise the talks to - a. higher diplomatic level — between Kantor and Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi.
. Leading the US team now is Deputy Assistant Trade representative Lee Sands, branded by the officials China Daily in December as a progress inhibiting bogeyman.''
The US movie, fausic and software industries have called China the world's worst intellectual-property thief.
US officials and industry lobbyists who visited last week said Beijing has taken only cospietic steps to end piracy 'while ignoring about 30 plants, some state-Owned, making millions of take laser and compact discs a year for export. They allege that whole ministries are run on pirated software and that poor enforcement against CD plants indicates that local governments are growing stronger t Ik hi Beijing.
The Chinese government says it has made great progress in legal' protection of copy-
rights and is improving enforcement of a raft of new Intellectual-property laws.