[Ip-health] USTR's weekly newsletter on their annual GSP review

[Mike Palmedo]

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Obama Administration Completes 2008 Annual Review of the Generalized System
of Preferences



USTR Weekly Newsletter

June 30, 2009



Washington, D.C. - Ambassador Ron Kirk announced today the outcome of the
Obama Administration's 2008 Annual Review under the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) program. The GSP Program, in 2008, facilitated $31.7
billion in imports of nearly 5,000 types of products from 131 developing
countries.



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The GSP 2008 Annual Review also involved an analysis of petitions to
withdraw or limit a country's GSP benefits for not meeting GSP eligibility
criteria. These criteria include the extent to which a country provides
adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) and
whether a country is taking steps to afford internationally recognized
worker rights to workers in that country. Several beneficiaries remain under
active scrutiny because of such concerns, including: Lebanon, Russia and
Uzbekistan regarding IPR protection, and Bangladesh, Niger, the Philippines
and Uzbekistan regarding worker rights.



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To read more on this announcement, click here:



http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/june/obama-adm
inistration-completes-2008-annual-review-gen







Mike Palmedo

Assistant Director

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

American University, Washington College of Law

T: 202-274-4442 | F: 202-274-4495 | M: 571-289-3683

wcl.american.edu/pijip | mpalmedo@wcl.american.edu



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