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    US in huge crackdown on alleged designer fakes from China
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    US in huge crackdown on alleged designer fakes from China AFP/File – Women buy counterfeit luxury bags in a street of Hong Kong, in 2004. US authorities announced Tuesday …
    Tue Aug 3, 5:32 pm ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – US authorities announced Tuesday the biggest federal crackdown ever on West coast shopowners who allegedly sell counterfeit luxury handbags and other goods worth some 100 million dollars.

    Prosecutors said they have charged operators of eight San Francisco shops with selling suspected designer fakes made in China, the US attorney for northern California and US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.

    The 25-count indictment is "part of the largest federal enforcement action ever taken against West Coast retailers suspected of selling counterfeit designer apparel and accessories," they said in a statement.

    "To consumers who think designer knockoffs are a harmless way to beat the system and get a great deal, 'buyer beware,'" said ICE Director John Morton.

    "Trademark infringement and intellectual property crime not only cost this country much needed jobs and business revenues, but the illegal importation of substandard products can also pose a serious threat to consumers' health and safety," he said.

    Authorities revealed the details of the case in an indictment unsealed Monday. The indictment was filed in federal court July 22.

    It charged the defendants, mostly residents of San Francisco, with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, and trafficking in counterfeit goods.

    "The investigation has led to the seizure of nearly 100 million dollars worth of counterfeit merchandise [based on the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) had the products been legitimate]," a statement said.

    Among the items seized were "clothing, handbags, wallets, jewelry, watches, scarves, sunglasses and shoes that were illegally imported from China," it said.

    The suspected counterfeit items purported to be luxury brands such as Dooney and Bourke, Nike, Coach and Kate Spade, Armani, Burberry, Prada and Louis Vuitton.

    "Interdicting and destroying counterfeit and trademark infringing goods has long been a priority of the federal government," US Attorney Joseph Russoniello said.

    "The significant impact of trafficking in such merchandise on the American economy should be obvious."
    “the misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all” -- Joan Robinson

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    i disagree.
    Trademark infringement and intellectual property crime not only cost this country much needed jobs and business revenues, but the illegal importation of substandard products can also pose a serious threat to consumers' health and safety," he said.well whoever he is, he is full of it.
    i'd like him to explain how it cost much needed jobs and business revenues???
    does he mean we could make those fakes in us??? and consumer health??? only if they fill LV bag with stones and hit someone over the head, or if they get beat up by cops doing raids.

    "The investigation has led to the seizure of nearly 100 million dollars worth of counterfeit merchandise [based on the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) had the products been legitimate]," a statement said.
    lol, why not 5 gazilions??? no one sells those bags as originals, for the same price as originals. they sell them in china town here for 30-60 bucks. no consumer that is set to buy original, and can afford original, will ever go to shady stores and buy fake for 60.
    so original manufacturer loosing money , is another b.s.
    "The significant impact of trafficking in such merchandise on the American economy should be obvious."
    it is not. what is obvious is wasting lea resources, and fighting war that we can't win, just like prohibition, and drug war.
    "Interdicting and destroying counterfeit and trademark infringing goods has long been a priority of the federal government," US Attorney Joseph Russoniello said.
    lol, sure fake bags are priority, not border control, not illegal immigrant problem, but fake bags.

    fake money is a problem, fake medicine is the problem, anything that is fake and passed on as original is a problem, not fake bags ,glasses, shoes, that are not being sold as original.
    Last edited by omon; 04 Aug 10,, 15:41.
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