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October 2, 2014

On October 2, 2014, Bill C-8, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act, passed the House of Commons, and proceeded to a first...

October 2, 2014

You may not connect the cheap cigarettes sold under the counter (or out of a trunk, bodega or by a street vendor) with the...

October 2, 2014

MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Customs (BOC) filed on Thursday smuggling charges against a Batangas-based trader who allegedly...

October 1, 2014

AS part of measures to successfully tackle rice smuggling, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has acquired Armoured Personnel...

October 1, 2014

Stormont’s Justice Minister David Ford and Dublin’s Minister for Justice and Equality Frances Fitzgerald joined PSNI...

September 29, 2014

MANILA, Philippines–The Department of Justice (DOJ) has thrown its support behind a Senate bill that would redefine smuggling as...

September 28, 2014

HONG KONG — When Apple’s latest iPhones went on sale this month in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, among the hip urbanites and...

September 26, 2014

Vietnam’s latest bid to raise its tobacco taxes will do little to curb consumption because it fails to hit the...

September 25, 2014

Romanian customs workers seized almost 49 million smuggled cigarettes worth some EUR 6 million in the first eight months of this...

September 18, 2014

Donald Kadondara (32), from Katlehong, appeared in court on a charge of copyright infringement.He pleaded guilty and was found...

September 17, 2014

iPhone 6US customs have seized fraudulent iPhone 6 handsets, even before the new device has been launched onto the market.In late...

September 17, 2014

ShoppingBrand owners often cite a lack of data about the way counterfeits penetrate the supply chain as a barrier to tackling the...