Keith Johnson reports today in the Wall Street Journal that:
– Last Christmas the US seized 26 million US dollar worth of counterfeit goods.
– Now the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center confiscated 40 million US dollar worth of couterfeit goods in more than 30 US cities. This operation was called: Spring Cleaning. Seems that the US is copying China’s gusto for fancy names for enforcement operations.
– And as part of a separate and long running investigation at the port of Baltimore another 200 million US dollar worth of fake goods were seized.
Mr Johnson wrote: “Chinese criminal gangs are the biggest purveyors of fake goods in the U.S., accounting for about 80%, by value, of the counterfeit goods seized last year, according to U.S. government data.“