美国官员向中国施加压力打击盗版

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<p>BEIJING, Nov. 14 — China should intensify its fight against intellectual property theft with a crackdown on organized crime gangs that are responsible for widespread copyright piracy, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez said Tuesday. </p><p>As the United States maintained pressure on China to curb rampant counterfeiting, Mr. Gutierrez called on Beijing to make it easier to prosecute criminals who steal intellectual property. </p><p>He said contacts between American and Chinese legal authorities and recent enforcement actions had revealed that organized crime was involved in many piracy cases. </p><p>“These are criminal organizations and one of the things they do is run a supply chain for illicit goods, pirated goods,” Mr. Gutierrez said during an interview on the second day of a four-day visit to China at the head of an American business delegation. “This is organized crime. One day it could be T-shirts, the next day it could be watches and the next day it could be medicines.”</p><p>With China on track to record a huge trade surplus with the United States this year, Mr. Gutierrez renewed a warning that intellectual property theft in China was a threat to trade ties. </p><p>Protectionists in the United States have become an increasingly vocal group, he said in a speech to business executives, adding, “and they point to the lack of robust I.P. protection in China as a top reason why we should put protectionist policies in place.”</p><p>Mr. Gutierrez said the theft of intellectual property was costing United States businesses an estimated $2.3 billion a year. </p><p>Mr. Gutierrez acknowledged that the Chinese authorities were stepping up their efforts to enforce laws protecting intellectual property. He noted the recent Chinese seizures of counterfeit Tamiflu, a drug used to treat influenza, in an operation that involved cooperation with United States law enforcement agencies.</p><nyt_text></nyt_text><nyt_text></nyt_text>

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