COUNTERFEIT GOODS
August 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallCUSTOMS teams in the European Union have singled out clothing and textile goods for legal proceedings based on pirated and counterfeit goods seized at the EU's external borders. They account for almost 50 per cent of cases in 2001, despite involving only five per cent of fake copies of any product intercepted, (five million articles of textiles and clothing were seized last year). Numbers of counterfeit goods are rising generally, the European Commission says that in 2001, 95 million counterfeit or pirated goods worth Euro 2 billion were intercepted ...
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