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July 11, 2015

The Chinese woman has a history of selling counterfeit luxury goods. She has been sued in the U.S. by eight luxury brands. She...

July 10, 2015

Who knew that the answer to fighting the trillion-dollar global counterfeit drug problem rested in a particle the size of a speck...

July 10, 2015

Over the last few months, CRTF officers laid charges against three people and seized 1,720 kilograms of fine cut tobacco, two...

July 9, 2015

SEVERAL boxes of allegedly fake medicines were seized yesterday during a simultaneous raid in five pharmacies in the cities of...

July 9, 2015

Hong Kong Customs announced on Thursday that 100,000 sticks of suspected illicit cigarettes with a market value of about 270,000...

July 8, 2015

Just a few days after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it had performed a “slam dunk” enforcement...

July 8, 2015

The average pack of cigarettes costs about ¢1,600 in Costa Rica. Almost 70% of this cost goes to paying various types of taxes....

July 7, 2015

The fate of debt-ridden U.S. rare earth miner Molycorp rests on China’s efforts to crack down on networks that smuggled as...

July 7, 2015

A California man was arrested last month for trying to trade in nearly 7,000 pounds of recyclables that he hauled in from out of...

July 6, 2015

Assam and Meghalaya are incurring revenue losses to the tune of Rs 700 crore every year due to illegal trade of cigarettes, which...

July 6, 2015

The number of counterfeit products being sold is continuously rising, recently confirmed in reports compiled by by Police...

July 4, 2015

The Customs Department continues to enhance its enforcement initiative to curb smuggling activities. This includes contraband...