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Counterfeiting Next Big China Issue.

The US and China may have settled their dispute over Beijing's VAT treatment of chips, but this means that counterfeiting counterfeiting, manufacturing spurious coins, paper money, or evidences of governmental obligation (e.g., bonds) in the semblance of the true. There must be sufficient resemblance to the genuine article to deceive a person using ordinary caution.  can now move to the top of the agenda as far as America's chip industry is concerned.

Washington and Beijing announced last week that they had struck an agreement that will see the end of a VAT rebate system that discriminated against chip imports to China. The settlement came just months after China backed down over plans to introduce a wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area  standard that overseas vendors saw as proprietary.

The two settlements took care of the two biggest disputes between the US and China, but American chip makers have other concerns they are looking to address.

A spokesman for the Semiconductor Industry Association said the biggest outstanding concern is the counterfeiting industry in China. He said that Beijing has put the right laws in place, "but there's still a large amount going on."

While counterfeiting is rife rife  
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1. In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent.

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 spokesman said the countries were not out of sync Out of Sync: A Memoir is the upcoming autobiography of American pop singer Lance Bass, set to be published on October 23, 2007. It features an introduction by Marc Eliot, a New York Times  on the issue. Rather, it is question of ensuring that the government policies are enacted on the ground.

He said the organization planned a seminar in the country later in the year to highlight the issue.
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Publication:Computergram International
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 16, 2004
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