China’s intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement remains inadequate and foreign company market access barriers too strict, according to the Special 301 Report, keeping the United State’s second-largest trading partner on the US Trade Representative’s (USTR) priority watch list for another year.

Integrating China’s national and local intellectual property (IP) agencies through reforms

Although China’s competition enforcement agencies have announced few new cases this year, they have been busy improving their guiding principles.