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Australia was also placed on the Priority Watch List under the market access provisions of the statute for limiting U.S. audiovisual exports. Australia maintains a quota of 40% Australian origin on television transmissions from 6 a.m. to midnight; this quota will rise to 50 percent in 1993. In addition, the Australian Broadcast Tribunal requires that dramatic programming meet "Australian look" standards, discouraging foreign television programs. Finally, with the exception of 20 percent of the pictorial matter, all television advertisements must be produced in Australia or New Zealand.
WATCH LIST
In reviewing the practices of all of our trading partners, the USTR has decided that 23 of those trading partners should be placed or retained on the Watch List for special attention (rather than be otherwise identified) because they maintain intellectual property practices or barriers to market access that are of particular concern.
Over the next year, the United States will step up its efforts with these trading partners to resolve problems associated with protection of intellectual property or market access.
Those placed or retained on the Watch List are:
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Argentina |
Italy |
Taiwan |
OTHER ACTIONS
Malaysia has been removed from the Watch List because of its adherence to the Berne Convention and improved enforcement efforts in the area of copyright.
Although not placed on any lists, problems in three countries have raised specific concerns. In the case of Poland and the U.S.S.R., as a result of bilateral negotiations with the United States that took place last year, both countries are undertaking significant reforms in their intellectual property regimes. Rapid passage and implementation of this legislation is extremely important since piracy of intellectual property, particularly of copyrights, appears to have increased dramatically, particularly in Poland. In the case of Ecuador and the other countries of the
