Despite the progress it has made towards improving intellectual property rights protection last year, Thailand remains on the United States Trade Representatives’ (USTR) Watch List this year, the Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) said on Monday.
Each year, the USTR released a report which assesses the US’s trading partners’ performance in protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights.
This year’s watch list features 20 countries, said Vuttikrai Leewiraphan, director-general of the DIP.
Other nations on the watch list include Algeria, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, he said.
Seven countries — Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Venezuela — are on the Priority Watch List,…
