Three days ago.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - On this Thursday, the United States added Argentina, Chile and Venezuela in the list of violators of intellectual property rights, which, for the first time, includes Canada, Indonesia and Algeria.
"Canada was inserted for the first time in the Priority List of Surveillance”, says the annual report about the situation of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and control.
The report "Special 301" held by the office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), points out that Algeria and Indonesia are also listed.
Besides China, Russia, Canada, Indonesia and Algeria, other countries that are part of the list are Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand and Venezuela.
Brazil and 32 other U.S. trading partners are in a less severe level of the relation, deserving "bilateral attention to address the problems of intellectual property rights."
The list that includes Brazil has Bolivia, Brunei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey and Vietnam, among others.