Stakeholders Urge USTR To Address Dairy Access, IPR With Canada In TPP

U.S. business groups have urged the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to focus on completely opening up Canada's dairy sector, bolstering protections for intellectual property rights and easing investment and services barriers for U.S. companies when that country joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations next month, according to comments filed last week. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) argued in its comments that Canada has to improve its copyright protections beyond the copyright law that Canada passed earlier this...