The Chinese embassy in Washington is apparently refusing to give visas to US officials wanting to visit China to investigate counterfeit electronic parts, as reported by the Lincoln Tribune. US Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has hinted at the Chinese embassy’s reluctance to grant US access without an official Chinese escort. The US wants to investigate Chinese electronics manufacturers after it emerged that the U.S. Defense Department has unwittingly purchased counterfeit components for use in various crucial systems, including missile defense and flight control computers.
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14,000 counterfeiters arrested in China
Chinese police arrested 14,185 people involved in the production and sale of counterfeit goods over the last five months – further evidence of the huge scale of counterfeiting operations in China. According to philSTAR.com, over 7,000 production and sales outlets were destroyed during the period and many more are still under investigation.
Counterfeiting in China is a global problem. Many major brands continue to look for ways to tackle the phenomenon which threatens to harm brand reputation. Investigation management software systems, such as ABM’s Intellicase, can play a valuable part in helping to investigate incidents of counterfeiting.
20,000 dodgy product listings every day
Illustrating the scale of the counterfeiting problem in China, the country’s biggest online retailer, Taobao, has revealed that it removes around 20,000 suspected counterfeit product listings every day from its e-commerce website. As reported by Penn Olson, Taobao use various initiatives to identify counterfeit products on their website and have recently joined forces with 89 global brands to help reduce the instances of rogue products. Although 20,000 sounds like a lot of listings to remove, the website published over 10 million new product listings every day, making it extremely difficult to overcome the counterfeit goods problem. http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/03/21/taobao-counterfeit-products/
No escape from Chinese fakes: Australian wines latest victim
Some of Australia’s best known wine brands have become victim to the increasing issue of Chinese counterfeiters, presenting a serious threat to Australia’s export wine market. As reported by The Age, fake bottles of Australian wine including the well known Penfolds brand are being found in shops and trade fairs throughout the country.
Smaller wine producers are also being targeted; Emanuel Skorpos of Flinders Run is currently investigating whether two bottles of one of his wines bought in a Chinese shop are fakes. In addition to the affects on sales of his own wines, his biggest fear is the threat it presents to the image of Australian wine in its fastest growing export market.
The full article can be found here.
