Industrialised countries announce anti-piracy enforcement plan

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

BRUSSELS (AFP) — Major industrialised countries announced plans on Tuesday for a new anti-counterfeiting pact as they seek to clamp down on money-spinning piracy in global trade.

The European Union, the United States and Japan all announced separately that they wanted to negotiate an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

They indicated that Canada, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, and Switzerland were also on board.

"There has been communication between the EU and its partners and an expression of interest between various nations. We are all basically pulling on the same rope here," European Commission spokesman Michael Jennings said.

The EU's trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, said a new international anti-counterfeiting treaty "will...

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