CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL POLICY UNDER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS INFRINGEMENT AND THE EFFECTS ON TRADE RELATIONS WITH US
FİKRİ MÜLKİYET HAKLARI İHLALİ ALTINDA ÇİN’İN ENDÜSTRİ POLİTİKALARI VE ABD İLE TİCARET İLİŞKİLERİNE ETKİSİ

Author : Gülçin Elif YÜCEL
Number of pages : 479-508

Abstract

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are defined by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) as "the exclusive rights to use the products of the people considered for a specified period of time exclusively." When considered together with technology transfer, economic IPR have an important place in foreign trade, especially for Emerging Countries. In this context, how to preserve intellectual property has become a source of international trade agreements. Within the US-China trade relations, the issue of IPR has come to the fore. Article 301 of the Commercial Code, issued in 1974 in the United States, gives the president the power to impose unilateral taxation and commercial restrictions on the country's industrial enterprises in order to protect them from "unfair" commercial practices of other countries. Based on this, the US filed a lawsuit in 2017 claiming that China violated American IPR, and based on the conclusion report, Trump administration brought restrictions on more than a thousand products and semi-products which is equivalent to about 10% of US-China trade volume. China has reported a deep dissatisfaction with the intellectual property investigation initiated by the US, accusing the United States of doing commercial protectionism and destroying the current international trade system. Under these discussions, the issue of this paper is the role of China's infringement of intellectual property rights on its industrial development and the future of trade relations with the United States.

Keywords

USA-China Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, International Political Economics

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