Nexus of int’l tobacco companies : Local tobacco industry on verge of extinction
International Tobacco Companies have forged vicious nexus to annihilate the local tobacco industry in Pakistan.
Planning is...
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Sellers of luxurious items on China’s biggest online marketplace must prove product authenticity or face being shutdown...
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Alibaba’s Taobao steps up measures to fight fake luxury goods
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s online shopping platform Taobao is tightening controls on the sales of luxury goods, requiring...
Learn MoreGucci Departs International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition Following Addition Of The Alibaba Group
The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition now has one less influential brand in its nonprofit organization. Gucci has...
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Up in smoke
The illicit trade in tobacco products inflicted a revenue loss of Rs27.7 billion upon Pakistan last year, as per information...
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Authorities break up Chinatown buses cigarette-smuggling ring
A trafficking operation that used Chinatown buses and cars to bring 2 million contraband cigarettes into New York City every week...
Learn MoreFair Competition Commission seizes counterfeit goods
The Fair Competition Commission (FCC) has seized counterfeit products worth 39.3m/- in an operation in Mwanza city between May...
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Why Make in India when you can Fake in India
Most of us know at least one person who went abroad during summer holidays and returned flaunting his/her Gucci bag and Prada...
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US cracks down on counterfeiting
The illegal importation, distribution and sale of counterfeit products pose a significant and growing threat to the health and...
Learn MoreFuel smuggling syndicate exposed
Smuggling of refined petroleum products from Ghana to Burkina Faso through Paga, the capital of the Kassena Nankana West District...
Learn MoreStructural reforms needed to stop agri smuggling
One may give the Aquino administration passing marks for keeping the economy grinding at its enviable six percent rate for the...
Learn MoreGoing up in smoke: Terrorist financing and contraband cigarettes
In 2000, the United States authorities caught two Lebanese brothers for running a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation, moving...
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