EU CUSTOMS SEIZING MORE FAKE GOODS, ESPECIALLY FROM CHINA
September 1st, 2016
EUROPEAN Union (EU) customs authorities seized five million more counterfeit products at the bloc’s borders in 2015 than the year before, with China the originating country for 41% of these fakes, the European Commission’s latest annual report on the problem reveals. This report on ‘EU customs enforcement of intellectual property rights – Results at the EU border 2015’ revealed that over 40 million products valued at nearly EUR650 million were detained last year at the EU's external borders because customs officials suspected they violated an ...
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