U.S. and Mexico Prepare Bilateral Session on Enforcement Cooperation (XA)

In March, 2000, the international trade media announced that the U.S. and Mexico will hold a meeting on two enforcement cooperation issues: intellectual property rights (IPR) and the environment. In April, the two governments plan to hold a meeting of a bilateral commission on intellectual property rights, at which the U.S. plans to complain about Mexico’s enforcement of IPR rules and government use of pirated software. In February 2000, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Richard Fisher raised the issue with Mexican Undersecretary of Trade Luis de la Calle…[more]