| This is about all product piracy; not just P2P »money.cnn.com/2005/07/22/news/in···ndex.htm
U.S. manufacturers of products ranging from shampoo to auto-safety glass also complain that they often have to compete with counterfeit versions of their own products in China and other markets around the world.
The Commerce Department estimates nearly 7 percent of the goods in the global market are counterfeit.
China -- where 90 percent of music and movies are pirate copies -- will be a chief priority, Gutierrez said.
"Frankly, our goal is to reduce (China's piracy levels) to zero," Gutierrez said. He declined to specify a timetable, but acknowledged it could be a lengthy effort.
The United States will closely monitor a long list of anti-piracy pledges China made at this month's high-level Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade meeting, including a promise to increase criminal prosecutions, Gutierrez said. This is more about China making knockoffs of many many products, not JUST music and movies. Though that is a big piece of it. It seems the capitalists in China still have a big piece of communism in their philosophy. What's mine is mine, and what is yours is mine too.
And if this initiative can reduce the crooks in China by 50%, that could wipe out the US trade deficit with them.
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| Don't you think China's trade surplus has more to do with their currency's article value (which they just inhinged actually) than with the drop in the pond of piracy? China is moving towards being a legitimate global competitor. Right now, it may be textiles and metal goods, but as the value of the yuan floats up, so too will China's imports, balancing the deficit. Besides, what does good does a US piracy czar do in China? About as much good as the drug czar does in Afghanistan (pre-U.S. occupation). |
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| said by broadbander:Don't you think China's trade surplus has more to do with their currency's article value (which they just inhinged actually) than with the drop in the pond of piracy? China is moving towards being a legitimate global competitor. Right now, it may be textiles and metal goods, but as the value of the yuan floats up, so too will China's imports, balancing the deficit. Besides, what does good does a US piracy czar do in China? About as much good as the drug czar does in Afghanistan (pre-U.S. occupation). When China signed onto the WTO they signed a devils bargain. We now have the power to coerce them to enforce laws to stop piracy, etc. or they can have huge tariffs levied against their goods. Why do you think they revalued their currency. They didn't want to but were forced by the international money powers represented by the WTO.
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| Quite a good point! Nations are often short-sighted about such things. United States included. China's entry into the WTO seems to be an instance of a nation desperate to get in on international trade not realizing the strain such a relationship would cause as their economy grew more viable and profitable. As China grows economically and technologically, they'll probably deal with many of the international economic relations problems that the United States and Russia deal with.
And the truth is, if any government can control private piracy, its the Chinese government. Their law enforcement infrastructure is large enough and their ability to keep tabs on media is quite impressive as well (not necessarily a good thing of course). China are still dependent upon the international community for their surplus income so tariffs would have an affect, even if in the coming decade, China will switch from a cheap materials exporter to an importer, it certainly hasn't happened yet. |
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U.S. tariffs on China imports 2%. Fact, China tariffs on U.S. imports 20%,and more. So the why would they buy our products that cost more than they do for us, at there slave wages. |
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