The International Roadmap for 3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc.

^{While our attention is (understandably) focused on wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the headline story for 3-A SSI is the global shift by U.S. corporate giants and Chinese manufacturers from China to other markets. According to the Boston Consulting Group, “more than 90 percent of the North American manufacturers we surveyed have relocated some production from China in the past five years,” and there is a similar plan to make such moves in the next five years.  The principal competitive destinations for investments fleeing China are India, Mexico, Southeast Asia, Turkey, and Morocco.  This is the future international roadmap for 3-A SSI.  The reason is simple and straightforward.  Where Chinese manufacturers have gone, the potential for intellectual piracy has flourished.}

^{The first stop on the international roadmap for 3-A SSI should be India, which has the largest population in the world, and the world’s fifth largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP).  Predictions are that by 2030 it will have the world’s third largest GDP.}

^{Examples of U.S. capital recently departing China include Apple, Qualcomm, Ford (resulting in possibly 1,300 job layoffs), Microsoft, Intel, Micron, and cancer drug company Kinnate Biopharma (laying off 70 percent of its workers).}  

^{The capital flight from China will put additional pressure on all exporters from China as the observance of patents, trademarks, and copyrights is concerned.  While 3-A SSI has a Section 337 exclusion order from the United States International Trade Commission in place against offending Chinese exporters fraudulently using and falsely advertising the 3-A Symbol, continued vigilance is required.}  

^{As Chinese manufacturers flee China it is important to assure that the 3-A Symbol and other marks be vigorously defended in such expanding international markets.}

^{With regard to India a positive first step would be the restoration of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, which provides duty-free access for developing country markets.  The United States dropped India from its GSP program on June 5, 2019.  Negotiations have continued, without success, to place India back on the GSP program.  India formerly had the Commonwealth Preference; it should now have the American Preference.  Graduation from GSP makes no sense for a country with a per capita income of around 2,000 dollars.   Following GSP reinstatement, a new trade agreement can be negotiated between India and the United States addressing such issues of interest to 3-A SSI such as the protection of intellectual property rights.}