Singapore not blacklisted by US over Intellectual Property rights

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Singapore was not cited among the countries deemed to have poor records of upholding copyrights, trademarks and patents, in an annual watchlist called the Special 301 Report. It was published on Sunday by the US Trade Representative (USTR) which oversees America's trade agreements with its trading partners. A country on the watchlist could face increased import tariffs, for example.

Some countries the USTR said had fallen short include China and Russia, both of which are on its 'priority' watchlist of 12 particularly conspicuous offenders.

Despite increasingly aggressive lobbying by the American media industry to blackmark the Republic, Singapore has not been blacklisted by the US government for not protecting intellectual property (IP) rights.

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