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 various enforcement agencies. Although the General Department of Customs established an investigative IPR protection task force to focus efforts on protecting IPRs at the border, a range of IPR enforcement problems remain. These problems include high levels of copyright piracy, increasing levels of piracy over the Internet, satellite and cable signal piracy, and the general availability of counterfeit goods in the marketplace. The United States continues to encourage Vietnam's enforcement agencies to initiate more criminal prosecutions, and to impose deterrent-level sentences in appropriate cases. The United States encourages Vietnam to clarify its system for protecting against unfair commercial use, as well as unauthorized disclosure, of undisclosed test and other data generated to obtain marketing approval for pharmaceutical products. The United States will continue to engage with Vietnam under the U.S.-Vietnam Trade and Investment Framework Agreement to address these and other issues.