Banning e-cigarettes will lead to smuggling, warns consumer group
August 3, 2015
The majority of e-cigarette users, or vapers, would seek to buy their devices and liquids from other countries if their sales...
Learn MoreForeign Tobacco Producers to identify counterfeit cigarettes
August 3, 2015
Head of Zakarpattia regional state administration Hennadiy Moskal has asked Ukrainian and foreign tobacco producers to join the...
Learn MoreSeizures of smuggled cigarettes
August 3, 2015
Illegal cigarettes comprise the largest share of the seized smuggled goods. Over 160 million pieces of them, estimated at EUR 19...
Learn MoreCounterfeiting: The Rising Threat to Electronics Manufacturers (and Enterprise Labeling as the First Line of Defense)
August 1, 2015
As a serious challenge to today’s global electronics supply chain, counterfeiting and gray market diversion of electronics...
Learn MoreAuthorities fear illicit tobacco trade is moving from Gloucester shops to ‘tab houses’ on estates
August 1, 2015
Fears have been raised that the war on illicit tobacco could soon take a sinister new twist after £20,000-worth of the stuff was...
Learn MoreCounterfeit of Luxury goods
August 1, 2015
THE grand golden doors of 500 Pearl Street, in Manhattan, have welcomed such glamorous names as Hermès, Tiffany & Co and...
Learn MoreNGOs acting at behest of foreign firms: ITC chief
July 31, 2015
As its core tobacco business faces pressure, ITC chief Y C Deveshwar on Friday accused some ‘NGOs’ of acting as...
Learn MorePIL on fake water bottles, medicines
July 31, 2015
The petition by Satish Chandra, filed through advocate Abhiuday Chandra, has contended that the “Central Pollution Control...
Learn MoreContraband Cigarettes, Chewing Tobacco Seized
July 31, 2015
More than S$100,000 worth of contraband cigarettes and chewing tobacco were seized by Immigration & Checkpoints Authority...
Learn MoreTobacco smugglers jailed
July 31, 2015
A Lancashire father and son, who attempted to steal £229,000 in tax by smuggling illegal cigarettes and tobacco into the UK, were...
Learn MoreLack of compliance to UNBS laws
July 30, 2015
LACK of complying with existing laws under the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) and stipulated standards has led to the...
Learn MoreTrader guilty of trying to sell fake cigarettes
July 30, 2015
Abdullah Al-Taaei, 48, of Kennington, was due to stand trial on July 6 at the Inner London Crown Court, but pleaded guilty before...
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