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Ohio’s cigarette tax proposal would light up a black market

Cigarette smugglers, or “buttleggers,” will “load up a U-Haul” with cigarettes from a low-tax state and re-sell them in higher-tax states. The practice is little-known but highly lucrative—the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms estimates that smugglers can net up to $4 million from a single truckload. As states increase their cigarette taxes, they also incentivize this black market activity.

http://watchdog.org/222601/ohios-cigarette-tax-proposal-light-black-market/

In shopping, here are secrets of quality buying

It’s not unusual to return from shopping and only to discover that some products you have bought were of low quality to what you were used to. So, once or twice we have found ourselves in error of paying money for fake product, simply because we did not take notice of certain differences. Regrettably, sometimes the ability to spot the difference between a fake and an original product eludes a buyer because of “market pressure”, however some other time the customer neglects his primary responsibility of ensuring that the goods he or she is paying for is original by doing the necessary checks expected of a buyer.

http://businessdayonline.com/2015/06/in-shopping-here-are-secrets-of-quality-buying/#.VXAsRdKqqko

Alibaba tightens up procedures on fake product listings

Alibaba has promised to introduce a fast-track system for taking down listings for goods suspected to be counterfeit on its online marketplaces.
The move comes in the wake of a fresh lawsuit from luxury goods group Kering SA – which owns brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) and Puma – which is claiming the Chinese online retailer is not doing enough to curb the sale of fake goods.

http://www.securingindustry.com/clothing-and-accessories/alibaba-tightens-up-procedures-on-fake-product-listings/s107/a2360/#.VXAsRNKqqko

Producers concerned by the new face of counterfeiting

The lack of control laboratory, lack of industry standards, carelessness, makes it very difficult to fight against counterfeit products. This is the bitter observation made by participants at the second day meeting on trademarks and counterfeiting, started Monday at El-Aurassi Hotel.
It is a phenomenon that threatens the health of consumers, and what worries more is that it develops and spreads.
The figures of the Customs services  demonstrates-more than 586,000 counterfeit goods seized in 2014 against more than 378,000 in 2013 and more than 786,000 in 2012-, the phenomenon of counterfeiting continues to grow and spread.

Why Spanish Cheese Smuggling Will Likely Continue in Canada

Canada is the North Korea of dairy products with a tight border through which foreign dairy products only pass in dribs and drabs but where, despite everything, Spanish cheeses are the rage.
In 2012, Canadian authorities broke up a profitable smuggling network by arresting three people who were illegally bringing products from the United States to Canada. Their crime?Smuggling mozzarella cheese to sell in Canadian restaurants.
The profits from the illegal dairy-products trafficking were so high that mozzarella was being called “white gold.”

Tobacco smuggling, Who profits?

Illegal traded cigarettes are cheaper than officially traded ones. Irrespective of the emphasis placed on tax increases on cigarettes, product regulations or packaging provisions, the tobacco industry frequently make use of illicit trade. Cigarette companies always raise alarm on public health measures to fuel illicit trade and thus making it counterproductive. Illicit trade in tobacco remains concealed by Multinational companies like Philip Morris or British American Tobacco. They have participated for many years in the illicit trade of tobacco products and contributed in establishing the criminal structures about which they vigorously complain today. To check the illegal tobacco trade , a new alliance against cigarette smuggling was formed in 2012 with the Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products supplementary to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which was also signed by Germany, and yet to be ratified.

http://www.spyghana.com/tobacco-smuggling-who-profits/

Romaco Group to display anti-counterfeit solution for blister packs at ACHEMA

Romaco Group will present the first ever anti-counterfeit solution for blister packs at the upcoming ACHEMA in Frankfurt/Main (Germany). The new system was developed exclusively with its partner company NANO 4 U and integrated into the RomacoNoack blister line 960. Anti-counterfeiting technology is an important issue for global pharmaceutical producers and packaging contractors. In an exclusive partnership with NANO 4 U, Romaco has developed an anti-counterfeit solution for blister packaging that is suitable for pharma products and meets the EU Falsified Medicine Directive 2011/62/EU. At the ACHEMA, Romaco will be introducing the RomacoNoack 960 blister line with the new technology for unique primary packaging identification.