Priority Foreign Countries are those pursuing
the most onerous or
egregious policies that have the greatest
adverse
impact on U.S. right holders
or products, and are
subject to
accelerated investigations and possible
sanctions.
Countries or
economies on the Priority Watch List do
not provide an adequate
level
of IPR protection or
enforcement, or market access for persons
relying on
intellectual property protection. Thirty-four trading
partners are placed on the Watch List, meriting
bilateral attention to address the underlying IPR problems.
China and
Paraguay, due
to their serious IP-related problems
are subject to
another part of the statute,
Section
306 monitoring,
because of previous bilateral agreements
reached with
the United States
to address specific problems
raised in earlier reports.