The Honorable Michael Froman
United States Trade Representative
600 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20508
Dear Ambassador Froman:
Our organizations appreciate the steps you and other senior Administration officials have taken
over the last nine months to address India’s discriminatory industrial policies, including its blatant
disregard for intellectual property. These policies threaten manufacturing and jobs across the country.
Unfortunately, high‐level dialogue and diplomacy have failed to reverse discrimination. Rather
than engage in good faith negotiations, India has expanded its industrial policies to other products and
sectors. It continues to deny and revoke patents for innovative medicines manufactured in the United
States and elsewhere. It continues to weaken protection and enforcement of copyrights, patents and
regulatory data. In the World Intellectual Property Organization and other forums, it is actively
promoting proposals that would undermine global rules safeguarding ideas, brands and inventions.
The United States must use the enforcement tools at its disposal to address this growing
challenge and to secure a fair and level playing field for manufacturers and workers. In particular, we
urge the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to designate India as a Priority Foreign Country in its
2014 Special 301 Report. This designation appropriately would rank India among the very worst violators
of intellectual property rights and establish a process leading to concrete solutions.
We look forward to a Priority Foreign Country designation. India’s systematic discrimination
against U.S. innovators and its growing theft of U.S. intellectual capital demand no less.
Sincerely,
Analtech, Inc.
Associated Oregon Industries
Bio Houston
BioBuzz Workforce Foundation, Inc.
BioNJ
BioUtah
California Manufacturers & Technology Association
Center for Healthcare Innovation
Center for Health Care Services
Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut
Chicago Life Sciences Consortium
Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry
Colorado BioScience Association
Colorado Competitive Council
Connecticut Retail Merchants Association
Denver Metro Chamber
Eastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce
Global Pharma Analytics, Inc.
GlycoMimetics
Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ)
Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization—iBIO®
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Indiana Health Industry Forum
Indiana Manufacturers Association
Iowa Association of Business and Industry
Life Sciences Greenhouse of Pennsylvania
MAC, Manufacturing Alliance of Connecticut, Inc.
Manufacturing Alliance of Connecticut
MichBio
Michigan Chamber of Commerce
Michigan Manufacturers Association
Mississippi Manufacturers Association
NC BIO
NC Biotechnology Center
Nevada Manufacturers Association
New Mexico Biotechnology & Biomedical Association
NJ Mayors Committee on Life Sciences
Ogden/Weber Chamber of Commerce
Rio Grande Valley Diabetes Association
Rush To Live
South Shore Chamber of Commerce
Tech Council of Maryland
Tech USA, LLC
Texas Association of Business
Texas BioAlliance
Texas Center for Health Care Services
Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute
Texas Life Science Foundation
Texas Nurse Practitioners
The Colorado Competitive Council
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
Virginia Bio
Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Virginia Small Business Partnership
Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA)
