In the raid last week, market surveillance forces discovered a lot of goods with unknown origins such as shoes, clothes, backpacks, handbags, wallets, belts, and many counterfeit LV, Chanel, Adidas and Gucci items.
E-commerce is a potential goldmine for businesses over the next two years with a potential reach of US$10 billion. But it also offers opportunities for counterfeit and smuggled goods, a conference in Quang Ninh was warned.
HCM City authorities are seeking more effective measures in the fight against counterfeit products, smuggled goods and trade fraud as e-commerce grows at a fast pace, an official has said.
Nearly 15,200 cases of smuggling and trade fraud have been uncovered in 2017, a decrease of 1.97 per cent from 2016, the General Department of Viet Nam Customs (GDC) reported Thursday at a press conference held in Ha Noi.
Domestic producers should improve the quality of products and design at
reasonable prices to meet customers'' demands because this is considered
to be one solution to preventing smuggled.