China Customs Stopped More Than 32,000 Shipments Over IPR This Year
China Customs stopped more than 32,000 shipments related to intellectual property rights infringements during the first half of 2018, it said in a July 27 news release. The detained inbound and outbound shipments contained 7.1 million items, it said. "In…
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the first half year, eastern coastal Customs Districts of Tianjin, Shanghai, Qingdao, Ningbo and Xiamen played the major role in cracking down on IPR infringement, but the inland Customs Districts of Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Changchun also posted rising data of IPR enforcement; along with the booming of cross-border e-commerce, China Customs seized more than 30,000 shipments of IPR-infringing goods contained in postal parcels and express couriers." China also recently worked with Russia customs on a special operation against infringed trademarks owned by FIFA, the international soccer federation, and its sponsors, China Customs said. "The two sides, by sharing IPR infringement information and strengthening bilateral enforcement cooperation, finally seized a total of more than 500,000 infringing articles."