GAC investigates 280 million pieces of infringing products

2010/04/20

General Administration of Customs (GAC) publicized on April 19 that, in 2009, the customs in the whole country adopted the measure of suspension to a total of 67,000 batches of import and export products suspected of infringing intellectual property rights, and actually captured 66,000 batches, wchi were respectively increased by 4.1 times and 5 times compared with 2008; the value was 450 million yuan and increased by 53%.

"The export products still accounted for the majority viewing from the recent captured infringing products. The amount of commodities and values restively accounted for 99.9% and 99% of the total infringing products", said spokesman of GAC. 
                                                                                                    Source: IPR in China