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05/01/2002 |
PRIORITY FOREIGN COUNTRY
UKRAINE
The U.S. Government withdrew
benefits from Ukraine under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in
August 2001, and imposed $75 million worth of sanctions on Ukrainian imports on
January 23, 2002, based on the repeated failure of Ukraine to comply with the
June 2000 Joint Action Plan. Ukraine unfortunately enacted an unsatisfactory
optical disk (OD) law in February 2002. The U.S. Government has worked with
industry to develop an approach to improve the actual enforcement of copyright
protection even with this inadequate OD law. To that end, the United States, in
cooperation with Ukraine and industry officials, has developed a set of ten
regulations to be implemented to improve the inadequate OD law. We hope to see
Ukraine implement the substance of these regulations soon and follow up with
strict enforcement of the current OD law. At the same time, the United States
remains committed to working with Ukraine to address the remaining deficiencies
in the existing OD law and thereby work toward reestablishing normal trade
relations.
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