PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR TO BENEFIT FROM NEW ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TREATY
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PERSONAL care product sector should benefit from a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), now largely negotiated. A draft text has been released by the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and Switzerland.
This plurilateral agreement protects cosmetics, soaps, scent and other consumer product manufacturers against illicit copies through tough criminal penalties for counterfeiters. Agreement was forged at Tokyo last month (October) on all major outstanding ...
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