The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has kept China and India on the U.S. priority watch list of countries that it says do not adequately protect patents, copyrights and other intellectual property rights, while Canada remains on the agency’s lower-level watch list.

In its annual “Special 301 Report,” a scorecard that evaluates how well countries protect U.S. IP, the USTR listed 13 countries on its priority watch list for 2015, including Russia, Ukraine, China and India. Another 24 countries were placed on the lower-level list.

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