GAC investigates 280 million pieces of infringing products

General Administration of Customs (GAC) publicized on April 19 that, in 2009, the customs adopted the measure of suspension to a total of 67,000 batches of import and export products suspected of infringing intellectual property rights, and actually captured 66,000 batches, which were increased by 4.1 times and 5 times respectively compared with 2008; the value was 450 million yuan and increased by 53%. The export products still accounted for the majority viewing from the recent captured infringing products.

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