Counterfeit Kings

[NoLimit]

Gucci sues Alibaba over 'counterfeit goods'

18 May 2015
From the section Technology

Alibaba raised $25bn when it floated its stock in New York last year

China's leading online marketplace Alibaba, is being sued by the owner of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Puma and other fashion brands.

Paris-based Kering has accused the firm of making it possible for US shoppers to order counterfeit goods in bulk from Alibaba's various websites.

It follows a failed attempt to resolve the matter outside the courts.

Alibaba said it was already taking action against fake goods and that it planned to fight the case.

"We continue to work in partnership with numerous brands to help them protect their intellectual property, and we have a strong track record of doing so,'' it said in a statement.

"Unfortunately, Kering Group has chosen the path of wasteful litigation instead of the path of constructive co-operation.''

But the French firm has defended its action.

"Kering and its brands dedicate a great amount of creative energy, craftsmen's know-how and monetary investments to develop products that speak to consumers and fulfil their needs," a spokeswoman told the BBC.

"This lawsuit is part of Kering's ongoing global effort to maintain its customers' trust in its genuine products and to continue to develop the creative works and talents in its brands."

This is not the first time Alibaba has been criticised over illegal sales made using its platforms.

Its Taobao shopping service had appeared on the US Trade Representative's list of "notorious markets" until 2012, at which point the US authorities recognised it was making efforts to combat the problem.

However, earlier this year, one of China's own regulators accused the company of failing to give the issue "sufficient attention", adding that Alibaba had let the "abscess fester until it became a danger".

The report was later pulled from China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC)'s website.

Fake bags

Kering originally took legal action against Alibaba last July, but dropped the case after the two sides agreed to discuss possible anti-counterfeit measures.

Kering's complaint gives a Gucci handbag and watch as examples of counterfeit goods sold on Alibaba

Following the breakdown of talks, the French firm has filed a fresh, lengthy complaint with a court in New York.

Within it, Kering gives the example of a merchant that has used Taobao to "openly sell" wholesale quantities of "obviously fake Gucci products".

The merchant is said to have advertised a branded handbag for $2-$5 (£1.30-£3.20) per unit - with the price determined by the size of the order, which had to be a minimum of 2,000 bags.

Kering notes that the bags are normally sold for $795 each.

It also highlights that watches bearing Gucci's trademarked logo had been displayed when users searched for "replica wristwatches" on the site.

"[The merchant] sells its counterfeit watch for $10-$80 per piece," the complaint states.

"This seller requires a minimum purchase of 300 pieces per order and can supply up to 200,000 pieces per month. The authentic Gucci watch retails for $960."

Kering alleges the two cases are part of a much bigger problem.

"These specifically identifiable counterfeit products could not be sold without their assistance, but instead of shutting down the counterfeiters, the Alibaba defendants seek to profit from the counterfeiters' blatant violations," it states.

Alibaba has made its founder, Jack Ma, one of China's richest men

"The Alibaba defendants knowingly assist these counterfeiters in virtually all aspects of their illegal operations."

Counterfeit crackdown

But during a recent conference call to bank analysts, Alibaba insisted it was enforcing a "zero tolerance policy" towards fakes.

"We conduct periodic checks by using third parties to identify suspected counterfeit products on our marketplaces," said Joe Tsai, the firm's vice-chairman.

"[And] when we receive complaints or allegations regarding infringement for counterfeit groups, we follow well-developed procedures to take strict action.

"If allegations are posting or selling counterfeit products are substantiated, we penalise the parties involved through a number of means, including enforcing the seller to reimburse the buyer, assessing penalties against the seller by limiting their ability to add listings, adopting a name-and-shame policy and closing down store fronts and permanently banning the seller from establishing another store front."

Alibaba is inviting manufacturers to adopt a new anti-counterfeit technology

More recently, the firm has announced a tie-up with an Israeli start-up to offer visual markers - similar to but less obtrusive than QR codes - that can be scanned with its Taobao app to prove that goods are genuine.

Manufacturers are being invited to add the "dotless visual codes" to their labels to help prove they are authentic.

 

[tanwahtiu]

the Chinese should reply the same of ilegalise opium trade with China saying:

Born and Bred to the Opium Pipe
Westerners had long held the vast, ancient kingdom of Cathay in awe, but by the end of the Opium Wars, Chinese were beneath contempt, mere creatures born and bred to the opium pipe. It is ever thus, for gross atrocities, whether in China or Auschwitz or South Africa or Nicaragua or the antebellum South, can be sustained only by dehumanizing our prey and by canonizing ourselves. Britain argued that not only did the Chinese want opium but that their physical constitution required it, and that the British opium monopolies throughout Asia were a humanitarian service for the Chinese.

http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm


Change some words to get this:

Born and Bred to the fake products

Easterners had long held the vast, fucking French kingdom in awe, but by the end of the fake product Wars, the worldwide consumers of French products were beneath contempt, mere creatures born and bred to the fake French products from China.

It is ever thus, for gross atrocities, whether in Westerners or Auschwitz or South Africa or Nicaragua or the antebellum South, can be sustained only by dehumanizing our prey and by canonizing ourselves. Chinese argued that not only did the worldwide consumers want cheaper version of French products but that their physical constitution required it, and that the Chinese fake products throughout world were a humanitarian service for the world consumers.

Fucking Westerners go get fuck off sell your products elsewhere.

 

[Froggy]

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/fake-rice-made-plastic-reported-have-reached-shores-several-countrie

Fake rice made of plastic reported to have reached Asian shores but not Singapore's
Published on May 19, 2015 8:45 PM

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The sacred bowl of rice that used to save lives could now be harmful - and even deadly.

Plastic rice laced with poisonous resin has reportedly reached the shores of several Asian nations. The rice is said to stay hard after it has been cooked.

The plastic rice, reportedly made from potatoes, sweet potatoes, with synthetic resin moulded into the shape of real rice, is said to have made its way into countries with large rural populations such as India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

One latest rumour said that the fake rice had entered Singapore.

But a spokesman from the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) told The Straits Times: "As part of AVA’s routine surveillance, imported rice is regularly inspected and sampled to ensure compliance with our food safety standards and requirements.

"Our sampling tests cover a wide range of food-borne hazards. Thus far, the testing results have been satisfactory.

"We have not received any feedback on fake rice."

Health experts and dieticians have warned that consuming such fake grains could be lethal or seriously damage the digestive system.

News of the fake rice, commonly sold in Chinese markets, especially in Taiyuan in Shaanxi province, has been circulating on popular social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook.

But the Malaysian Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry has said it has not received any reports on fake rice.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Pack them and sell it to the evil British land the drug Lord. What is the different in this trade compare to the evil Brit opium trade with China.

Opium was know later as poison becos the Brit added toxic industrial products to it. The Chinese quickly produced their opium with pure ingredient and sold at loss to their own Chinese. This make the British toxic opium (poison) worthless.

Fighting Fire With Fire
China reluctantly decided to destroy the Western opium trade by flooding the market with domestic opium. It was a painful decision, for Chinese rulers held that production of opium, for any reason, would “provoke the judgment of Heaven and the condemnation of men.”
It certainly provoked Britain’s condemnation, which resented China’s infringement upon her private opium monopoly. By 1876, China was earning over 1.5 million annually from opium, but Sir R. Alcock told the House of Commons that China would gladly abandon the trade if Britain stopped her own trafficking.

Five years later, Sir R. Alcock, the stalwart anti-opium crusader, sold out.

http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/fake-rice-made-plastic-reported-have-reached-shores-several-countrie

Fake rice made of plastic reported to have reached Asian shores but not Singapore's
Published on May 19, 2015 8:45 PM

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The sacred bowl of rice that used to save lives could now be harmful - and even deadly.


But the Malaysian Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry has said it has not received any reports on fake rice.

 

[Hypocrisy]

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[Sabra]

60 percent ‘fake’ news first found on Weibo sites

Source: Global Times Published: 2015-6-25 0:28:03

Nearly 60 percent of "fake" news reports are first posted on Weibo while Tuesdays see the peak of rumors on popular social networking app Wechat, according to a blue paper on new media released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Wednesday, China News Service reported.

According to the blue paper, China has 649 million netizens or 21.6 percent of the world's Internet population.

The paper analyzed 92 "fake" news reports that circulated online. It found that 59 percent of them were first posted on Weibo, while 32 percent started from online media.

Weibo became the top source of "fake" news due to its openness as any person can make posts on it, said the blue paper.

Only 7 percent of the "fake" news originated from Wechat, as it is more difficult to spread rumors on the platform which features an acquaintance circle, but also made them harder to disprove.

The paper also looked into 625 rumors widely spread on Wechat between November 2014 and February this year. It found that most of the rumors were spread between Mondays and Wednesdays, with Tuesdays as the peak.

The number of rumors dropped on Thursdays and Fridays but rose again on Saturdays.

Most of the rumors touched on food security, personal safety, health issues and fraud prevention.

Residents in China's coastal regions were more concerned about the rumors, likely because of the attention they give to their living standards and better Internet skills, the paper said.

 

[zeebjii]

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English please!

 

[TheHumanLeague]

Police in China seize 20,000 tonnes of low-grade ‘fake’ salt sold to restaurants and supermarkets

Gang sold huge quantities of cheap industrial salt and passed it off as table salt

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 02 July, 2015, 5:13pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 02 July, 2015, 5:34pm

Mimi Lauin Guangzhou [email protected]

Three suspects rounded up in the police crackdown. Photo: China News Service

Police in China have seized 20,000 tonnes of industrial grade salt that was sold by a gang as regular table salt, state media reported on Thursday.

The salt was found in Beijing, Tianjin, and five other provinces, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shandong and Jiangsu, the China News Service reported.

The Ministry of Public Security announced on Wednesday that police had broken up the gang behind the fraud.

Twenty-two suspects were arrested.

The investigation started after police in Taizhou in eastern Jiangsu province tested a batch of salt on sale at a market at the end of last year that was supposed to include iodine found in table salt.

But the tests found the samples were high in harmful nitrites and it was lower industrial grade salt.

Police investigated distribution and sales channels and found that the “fake salt” was mostly sold to smaller supermarkets and food stores, plus small restaurants in rural and suburban areas.

Some was also sold to food processing workshops and work canteens.

Taizhou police discovered the salt was packaged at an industrial plant in a rural area of Beijing and some was transported from the capital in the luggage compartments of coaches and buses.

Beijing Youth Daily said some of the salt was also sold in Beijing’s wet markets and to buyers in other provinces on the internet.

The main suspect in the gang allegedly bought several flats and cars in Beijing with the profits from repackaging industrial salt worth 400 yuan (HK$506) to 450 yuan a tonne and then selling it as higher-grade table salt for 800 yuan to 1,000 yuan a tonne, the newspaper said.

Industrial salt is used in a huge number of processes including making glass, polyester and fabric.

 

[nszxco]

Chinese man arrested for boiling up barrels of ‘fake’ blood delicacy, laced with formaldehyde

PUBLISHED : Friday, 03 July, 2015, 3:00pm
UPDATED : Friday, 03 July, 2015, 8:06pm

Ellis Liang [email protected]

Congealed blood made by the suspect. Photo: SCMP Pictures

A man has been arrested in northern China after he boiled up barrels of "fake" congealed duck blood in his small house and added the preservative formaldehyde before selling it as a gourmet delicacy, according to a media report.

Genuine congealed duck blood is prized by diners in many areas of China, but the man used cheaper cow and sheep blood, along with the chemical, and passed it off as the real thing, the news website Sina.cn reported.

The authorities in Ankang in Shaanxi province were first alerted shortly after he started boiling up the blood in February because of the smell coming from his house, the report said.

Twenty boxes of his products were seized.

Three months later the authorities were tipped off that he had started production again and his premises were raided.

The authorities said they found animals parts, several large pots and a coal-burning furnace on the ground floor of the man’s home, while he lived on a floor above.

Officials were quoted as saying that the room where he worked was “overflowing with blood”.

He had bought the sheep and cattle blood from a nearby slaughterhouse, the report said.

Five barrels of congealed blood were seized, according to the article.

The media in China regularly report on food safety scandals.

The government announced earlier this week that police had broken up gang that had produced 20,000 tonnes of lower-grade industrial salt and sold it to stores and restaurants as table salt.

Industrial salt is used in a huge number of processes including making glass, polyester and fabric.

 

[snczvxs]

wondering those 2 pandas from Singapore zoo is real or fake .

Jia Jia and Kai Kai? Cannot be lah

 

[Sabra]

Beijing police cracks massive medical fraud case

CRI, July 9, 2015

Beijing Police have arrested 150 people suspected of medical fraud.

Seven unqualified Chinese medical clinics were investigated in the case. The fraudsters lured patients to purchase cheap medicine at a high price at unqualified clinics, making huge profits for both the fraudsters and the clinics.

Most of the victims are non-local elderly people who have traveled to Beijing for treatment.

It is the largest medical fraud case on record in Beijing. Four hundred police were involved in arresting the fraudsters after an investigation lasting a month.

The case is still being investigated.

 

[syed putra]

China women are original and their orgasms are real. So its not all bad.

 

[Kuailan]

The Tiongs would even fake a Disneyland theme park.


[video=youtube;0-JULFxB0sk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-JULFxB0sk[/video]


And when confronted, the owner, in the typical Tiong 死鸭子嘴硬 'die die don't wanna admit fault' fashion, insisted that the fake Mickey Mouse wasn't a mouse, but a big-eared cat.

How come Disneyland USA did not sue them and have them remove for being FAKED???

 

[zsxnvx]

How come Disneyland USA did not sue them and have them remove for being FAKED???

Too big to sue because they are all over place and u can find them everywhere

 

[Sabra]

Attack of the clones: Xiaomi and Samsung biggest victims of China’s market for fake smartphones

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 8:00am
UPDATED : Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 8:00am

​Zen Soo [email protected] @zensoo

Xiaomi's Mi 4i smartphone on display in Hong Kong in May. Antutu found that over a third of counterfeit smartphones using its site were imitation Xiaomi models. Photo: Dickson Lee

Counterfeit smartphones abound in China, and over half are pirated versions of models by South Korean electronics giant Samsung and China’s Xiaomi, according to a new report.

Xiaomi, China’s biggest smartphone maker, shot to fame by offering what critics call cheap clones of Apple’s iPhone. Now even the clones are being cloned.

When Chinese graduate student Mel Li’s iPhone 4S stopped working in January, she decided to buy a cheaper handset online to tide her over until she decided which smartphone to replace it with full-time.

The 27-year-old purchased an unbranded model that offered the same interface, operating system and appearance as a new Samsung smartphone, but at a fraction of the cost.

“It’s made exactly the same as the Samsung Galaxy Note 3,” said Li.

In its report, Antutu, a Chinese benchmarking app for smartphones, found that 31 per cent of around 10 million devices using its service were imitation Samsung models. Counterfeit Xiaomi smartphones made up 37 per cent of the total.

The Mi Note, Xiaomi’s latest phablet, retails for about half the cost of a similar-spec Samsung Galaxy Note 4. At the bottom end of the spectrum, Xiaomi’s Redmi 2A smartphone can be had in China for as little as US$80.

Among all smartphone brands, Samsung was the second hardest hit. Photo: Reuters

Aware of the prevalence of unlicensed copies in China, Xiaomi hosts a verification service on its website. This allows its customers to input their phone’s security code so they can check its authenticity.

A quick search on Google brings up scores of forum tutorials informing worried consumers on how best to verify the legitimacy of their handsets.

The news comes at a bad time for Samsung. Last week, it forecast that its operating profit would hit 6.9 trillion won (US$6.1 billion) for the April-June period, down 4 per cent from the corresponding period in 2014.

This marks the seventh consecutive quarterly slide for the South Korean tech giant. Pundits point to poor sales of its Galaxy S6, the latest update to its flagship smartphone series.

Xiaomi has also taken a hit. In the first half of 2015 it posted slower than expected growth of 33 per cent. In contrast, its handset shipments jumped 227 per cent for the whole of 2014, with revenue soaring 135 per cent.

The Chinese smartphone market contracted for the first time in six years in the first quarter of 2015, with shipments falling 4 per cent year-on-year, according to a survey by market research firm International Data Corp.

Antutu’s report showed that 4 per cent of the smartphones using its service were counterfeit Huawei handsets, and 2 per cent were fake HTC models. Huawei is Chinese and HTC is based in Taiwan.

It did not reveal any statistics about Apple’s iPhone as the survey focused on Android models.

Apple was the top smartphone seller in China in the first quarter of this year, Xiaomi was second and Huawei third, IDC reported.

 

[MacLeod]

Beijing police seize 41,000 fake iPhones worth US$19m in raid on huge counterfeiting operation

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 28 July, 2015, 9:37am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 28 July, 2015, 9:58am

Reuters in Beijing

Fake iPhones worth an estimated US$19 million were seized by police in Beijing. Photo: Sam Tsang

Police in Beijing have busted a factory that produced more than 41,000 fake iPhones worth as much as 120 million yuan (HK$152 million), including some that reached the United States, and have arrested nine suspects in the counterfeiting operation.

Apple is one of the most popular brands in China, where authorities have stepped up efforts in recent years to dispel the country's reputation for turning out counterfeit goods.

Officials have taken stiffer action to enforce intellectual property rights, pushed firms to apply for trademarks and patents and cracked down on fakes.

Police arrested nine people, including a married couple who led the operation, after a raid in May on the factory, run under the guise of a gadget maintenance shop on the northern outskirts of the Chinese capital.

The details were revealed in a social media posting on Sunday by the public security bureau in Beijing.

The group, headed by a 43-year old man, surnamed Yu, and his 40-year old wife, surnamed Xie, both from the southern hardware manufacturing city of Shenzhen, allegedly set up the Beijing factory with six assembly lines in January, the bureau said.

They hired "hundreds" of workers to repackage second-hand smartphone components as iPhones for export, it added.

Police seized 1,400 handsets and large quantities of accessories during the May 14 raid. In the United States, the newest Apple Inc handsets can fetch US$649, or more, depending on the model.

Beijing police said their investigation followed a tip-off from US authorities who seized some of the fake devices.

The destination of the counterfeit phones, and how many made it there, remains unknown.

Public security representatives declined to comment on Monday.

Apple also declined to comment, saying the investigation was ongoing.

It is not the first time China has uncovered plots to exploit the popularity of Apple products.

Bloggers in the southwestern city of Kunming discovered more than a dozen unauthorised brick-and-mortar outlets in 2011 that carefully replicated the interior decor, and even employee uniforms, used in genuine Apple stores.

The viral pictures embarrassed officials, who vowed to do more to protect trademarks.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Can I chime in now?

Chinks are scums of the earth....

 

[NoLimit]

Heard of China’s fake handbags and Rolexes? Now there’s a fake Goldman Sachs operating in Shenzhen

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 27 August, 2015, 12:15pm
UPDATED : Friday, 28 August, 2015, 1:25am

Bloomberg

A Goldman Sachs Group logo hangs on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Photo: Bloomberg

China has been accused of pirating movies, handbags, Rolexes - even cars. Add Goldman Sachs to the list.

Goldman Sachs (Shenzhen) Financial Leasing Company has been operating in the city just across the border from Hong Kong using a nearly identical English and Chinese name as the New York-based financial institution, Goldman Sachs Group. It claims on its website to be one of the city's largest financial leasing firms.

A receptionist answering the phone at the Shenzhen company who declined to give her name said it's not affiliated with the US bank and wouldn't offer how it got its name, emphasising it includes Shenzhen. It's the first time she's been asked the question, she said.

Goldman Sachs (Shenzhen) Financial Leasing Company has been operating in the city just across the border from Hong Kong. Photo: Xinhua

A filing with the Shenzhen government indicates the company has been operating since May 2013. The company uses the same Chinese characters, gao sheng, as the real Goldman Sachs, and its English font is evocative of the US bank's.

Connie Ling, a Hong Kong-based spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs, confirmed there are no ties between the US investment bank and the Shenzhen company and said Goldman is looking into the matter.

It's not the only bank facing brazen name-borrowing. In a more extreme example, a 39-year-old man in eastern China's Shandong province was arrested earlier in August after setting up a fake branch of China Construction Bank, including card readers, teller counters and signs, according to the Xinhua news agency.

Shenzhen's Goldman Sachs came to light through a letter sent by a US casino workers union to Chinese officials.

The fake company's office is located in a relatively new gleaming high-rise office park along a tree-lined street on the western fringe of Shenzhen, a former fishing village turned global manufacturing powerhouse.

The casino workers union said the Shenzhen company is controlled by a Hong Kong-based gold trader unaffiliated with the investment bank.

The Shenzhen Goldman Sachs's website was inaccessible as of Wednesday, though it could be viewed in screen grabs captured by the union.

"There have been quite a few cases where Chinese individuals or organisations have registered in China the trademark of an existing and established overseas brand," Paul Haswell, a Hong Kong-based partner at law firm Pinsent Masons, said in an e-mail.

If history is any guide, Goldman doesn't have much chance of changing its Shenzhen doppelganger. Basketball legend Michael Jordan lost a case against a Chinese sportswear company that used the Chinese version of his name.

Apple paid US$60 million to settle a trademark dispute with a Chinese company that had applied to block the sale of iPad computer tablets in 2012.

"It's notoriously difficult for an overseas claimant to persuade the Chinese courts that there has been trademark infringement," said Haswell. "There's still a practice of whoever registers first wins."

 

[Sabra]

Guangdong busts major counterfeit banknote factories

China Daily, September 25, 2015

Workers were busy testing and mixing printing inks while two production lines were running at full speed.

Police officers in Huizhou, in south China's Guangdong Province, examine the paper used for counterfeiting 100-yuan banknotes, on September 24, 2015. [Photo: chinanews.com]

They were equipped with walkie-talkie but were caught unaware when police suddenly broke in.

This is what police officers saw when they raided a major secret counterfeiting banknote site hidden in a metal and plastic factory in Boluo county of Huizhou in eastern part of Guangdong province on early morning of Sept 17.

The small workshop, which was installed with sound insulating equipment, stretched over 60 square meters. A small door about 130 centimeters high and less than 1 meter wide was found behind filing cabinets in an office of the factory.

Huang Shouying, director of economic crime investigation bureau under Guangdong provincial department of public security, recalled busting the biggest fake banknote production case in the Chinese mainland since 1949 on Thursday.

Police seized fake banknotes with a total face value of more than 210 million yuan ($33.07 million) after raiding two production bases in Huizhou and in other five Guangdong cities and Sichuan province on Sept 17, Huang told a press conference on Thursday.

A total of 29 suspects, including the gang leaders, have been detained and four printing machines, many films and related equipment and semi-finished products have been seized after the raids on the two counterfeiting bases in Huizhou.

He said the crackdown has dealt a heavy blow to the banknote counterfeiting operation in Guangdong province which borders Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions.

Gao Weidong, deputy director of Huizhou city bureau of public security bureau, said more than 400 police officers took part in the special operation in Huizhou on Sept 17.

And one officer was injured during the raid.

"The special operation was launched after nine months of investigation," Gao said.

"The large amount of high simulation fake money might have been in circulation if the underground production sites in Huizhou had been busted two to three days later, as production of most of the fake banknotes had been completed," he added.

Cen Daoai, vice-president of Guangzhou Branch of People's Bank of China, said Guangdong, one of the country's economic powerhouses, has been the main theatre in the fight against fake banknote production in the mainland for decades.

"Guangdong police has busted more than 60 fake banknote production sites since 2009," Cen said.

He urged banks and other financial organizations across Guangdong to continue to expand their co-operation with police in the fight against counterfeiting banknotes in the months ahead to curb the illegal operations.

 

[Sabra]

Guangdong authorities destroy fake goods

By Wang Xiaodong

China Daily, September 26, 2015

Law enforcement authorities in Guangdong province destroyed 46,012 fake brand-name goods intended for export to Africa on Friday, in the fight against violations of intellectual property rights.

The goods, confiscated and stored since early last year by a subsidiary of the Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau in Guangzhou's Huangpu district, include brands such as Hermes, Gucci, Levi's, Dior, Chanel, Burberry and Diesel, the bureau said on Friday.

The destroyed goods included 120 leather belts, 95 purses and wallets marked Hermes, 240 leather belts and 65 women's purses marked Gucci and 1,320 leather belts marked LV. The products were produced by a company in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, the authorities said.

Also destroyed on Friday were fake products of other brands, including more than 8,000 items of sportswear marked Nike and about 15,000 marked Adidas that were produced by a company in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, the authorities said.

"The products will be shredded so they cannot be sold," said Yu Jun, chief of supervision and inspection at Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.

"They will be properly recycled and may be made into some other goods, such as mops," Yu said.

The Huangpu bureau handled 37 cases involving exports of fake or substandard goods to Africa since the beginning of the year, and handed four of them to the judicial department, the bureau said.

The move on Friday is the latest by quality authorities in China to fight exports of such goods abroad.

Guangzhou, a major port with the largest number of African expats among Chinese cities, has close trade relations with Africa.

This year, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine will focus on improving supervision and inspection of exported Chinese products, especially those headed to Africa and western Asia.

In the first half of the year, the administration seized 4,010 shipments of substandard goods across China that were going to be exported to Africa, with a total value of $170 million, the administration said.