“PIRACY” OF PATENTS
Trade Officials* Concern (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. Mr Richard Butler, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, said today that it was “absolutely vital” for Britain to have international safeguards against piracy of designs and patents.
Mr Butler, replying to questions at a Press Club luncheon in Washington, said that Britain could not agree to certain nations entering international trade bodies unless those nations agreed to rules of fair competition on the world market.
British trade officials in Washington have recently been expressing growing concern about the revival of Japan’s pre-war-type cheap imitations of quality British goods. Japan, with United States support, this year has been making strong efforts to increase her world trade by gaining membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Mr Butler said that Britain would like to have a new set of long-term rules for international trade built into G.A.T.T.
British Commonwealth Ministers, hieeting now in Washington, would discuss this matter, among others, in their informal talks.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 7
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