USTR, in Special 301 report, flags widespread counterfeiting in China

The widespread sale of counterfeit goods in China’s e-commerce markets, the largest in the world, has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic’s acceleration of online shopping, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Friday in its annual review of trading partners’ intellectual property practices. USTR’s Special 301 report this year reviewed more than 100 trading partner’s state of intellectual property protection and enforcement. The agency placed 32 countries on its “priority watch list,” which is for countries with the...