The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized more than 181,000 counterfeit merchandise products worth $43 million last month in Laredo, Texas.
ICE detained a total of 795 boxes of trademark-infringing merchandise. The boxes included fake goods which featured trademarks owned by Adidas, Apple, Chanel, Luis Vuitton, Samsung, Rolex, and Marvel Comics.
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) unit finished counting the items last week, according to a statement released on Friday, June 6.
The seizures were made following a three-day surveillance period in June, where HSI special agents observed boxes containing suspected counterfeit merchandise being moved. The agents later discovered that the shipping addresses on the boxes were not real.
HIS said that the counterfeit merchandise is believed to have been shipped from China.
The estimated street value of the items totals more than $42.9 million, making this the department’s largest counterfeit seizure in Laredo, which was identified as the tenth-most populous city in the state of Texas in the 2010 census.

Source: WIPR