USTR Launches Annual 2025 “Notorious Markets List” Review Comments Due October 1, 2025

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) has opened its annual review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy, or Notorious Markets List (NML). USTR is seeking public input on online and physical venues that reportedly traffic in large-scale trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy.

Stakeholders that rely on intellectual property, including sports leagues, broadcasters, streaming platforms, consumer-product companies and brand owners, should consider filing information identifying problematic marketplaces or details on responding to allegations involving their own businesses. The International Trade Administration’s (ITA), Office of Standards and Intellectual Property (OSIP) in the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) assists in contributing to this U.S. Government Inter-Agency Report.

If you are interested in meeting with ITA’s OSIP office to discuss your counterfeiting or piracy concerns, please reach out to our office contact noted below.

Information provided by stakeholders helps ITA OSIP office as we advocate for strong intellectual property protections in support of American businesses and in alignment with the Administration’s priorities.

USTR’s request for comments, published in the Federal Register, invites detailed submissions that describe how a particular market facilitates infringement, the extent of the economic harm, any enforcement efforts undertaken to date, and any measures adopted by the market’s operators to curb illicit activity. 

USTR has determined that the “issue focus” for the 2025 NML List will examine copyright piracy of live sports broadcasts. Right holders that experience unauthorized streaming of live events have an opportunity to place those concerns squarely before the U.S. government (USG), and we use this information provided to help determine USG positions. Evidence that a platform monetizes illegal streams through advertising, subscriptions or data-harvesting, or that piracy has shifted to new technical architectures (e.g., illicit IPTV, social-media live feeds, or decentralized streaming) will be particularly relevant.

The deadlines for the NML process are as follows:

• Written Comments must be filed by October 1, 2025
• Rebuttal Comments are due by October 15, 2025

All comments will be published by USTR; however, it is possible to protect business confidential information from publication.

The full Federal Register notice is here. Please feel free to reach out to ITA’s OSIP office and U.S. Department of Commerce NML Coordinator: Raquel Cohen.