While Americans may look askance at Chinese practices, Hennessey noted it is common in the U.S. for people to make a copy of someone else's work. But individual copies are different from mass production. There is a concerted effort to find out and identify those economic actors who are engaged in mass reproduction. Chinese exports of bootlegged media are another issue. We have the same problem with drugs getting across our borders.
Border enforcement is a separate type of enforcement from enforcement within a country.
They are both important. The United States has noticed a significant improvement in the intellectual property protection in China in recent years, he said. That has provided an incentive for the United States to move into other areas. The recent trade agreement with China announced by U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky gives the United States access to certain markets like telecommunications and gives the Chinese reliable access to U.S. markets because they will be a member of the WTO, he said. The agreement obligates China to cut tariffs an average of 23 percent and promises greater access to Chinese markets for U.S. banks, insurers, telecommunications firms and Hollywood film exporters.