Global Counterfeit Trading Volume Per Year Exceeds US $500 Billion.

Recorded Counterfeiting and selling The number of samples was numerous. The initial counterfeiting behavior took place in the field of consumer goods. There were various kinds of counterfeiting, such as the browning of the clay merchants into the fine powder and the addition of cocoa powder to increase the weight of "cocoa powder", such as selling the mixture of relatively cheap corn flour into the pure sugar YISHION sugar.

What is more wonderful is tea making. At that time, the tea which was very popular in the market became a hot target of counterfeiting. The counterfeit people collected the tea leaves which were discarded after drinking tea.

The large-scale sale of fake wine in Britain took place in the grape wine industry. The black heart wine merchants blended liquor and red pigment with water in Portuguese red wine to make the weight of the real wine expand sharply. In nineteenth Century alone, the amount of blended wine that the British drank every year exceeded that of Portugal.

Entering the twentieth Century, the industrial transfer process accompanied by high technology, counterfeiting and selling behavior have not disappeared in the western developed world, and there are many new cases.

Some people summed up some major counterfeit goods events in the world from 1970s to 1990s in twentieth Century.

　　 For example, weapons system fake big events:

In 1978, fake weapons were found in two guidance weapons, Lance missiles and Chapparral missiles.

In 1980, during the Islamic revolution in Iran, the students arrested 66 diplomats at the US embassy in Iran as hostages. The Carter administration of the United States adopted the code "Eagle Claw action" military rescue project. The operation ended in failure. It was reported that the helicopters who participated in the rescue led to the failure of using the fake parts, and 3 helicopters in the 8 participating helicopters were grounded, and 1 helicopters collided with the transport aircraft.

In 1987, a survey conducted by the relevant US agencies in NATO found that more than 600 of the NATO military helicopters that were carrying out missions were installed with counterfeit parts.

　　 For example, the big events of aerospace counterfeit goods:

In 1976, in the NASA's NASA's most sophisticated space shuttle project, fake transistors were found in electronic circuits.

In 1977, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States announced that in the cabin of about 100 Boeing 737 aircraft, the FAW detector and control system installed in the cabin of about 737 Boeing aircraft were used for fire control, which means that the key components used to prevent and control fires may be of no use.

In 1989, a Convair 580 aircraft crashed in Norway Norway German mission. All 55 people on board were killed. After checking, it found that the bolts used at the end of the aircraft were fakes.

In 1997, American aviation equipment supplier White Airlines was revealed and admitted to selling fake products to the government and aircraft manufacturers. White purchased a low ball bearing of 40 US dollars and replaced the original trademark with the trademark of high-end bearing brand Bell avltatlon. Bell avltatlon is a high-end bearing brand dedicated to helicopter rotor, which can sell for 200 US dollars.

　　 For example, the big event of fake medicine:

In 1978, the US Food and Drug Administration FDA found that a large number of fake medical valves were sold on the market, which led to large-scale recycling operations involving 266 hospitals in the United States.

In 1980, more than 1 million fake contraceptive tablets were sold worldwide, resulting in a large number of contraceptive failure.

In 1982, the Federal Bureau of investigation FBI discovered that a factory in California produced fake Quaaludes (acetone) and confiscated a counterfeit of 6 million dollars.

In 1990, a counterfeit drug in Nigeria, Africa, was adulterated with lethal industrial solvents and acetaminophen, which resulted in the death of 109 children in the country.

In 1995, the outbreak of meningitis in Niger, African countries, the international community took an emergency rescue operation. Through the international health organization, 6800 dozen (about 81000) meningitis vaccines were provided to Niger, but the vaccine was replaced by counterfeit goods in Nigeria, and no effective ingredients were found in the fake vaccine. Eventually, 3000 people died of meningitis.

In 1996, the CDC survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention of the United States found that the two kinds of cough syrup, Medril and Valodon, contained an antifreeze ingredient dier-hyleneglycol, which was toxic to humans and resulted in the death of more than 30 Haiti children. The pharval branch of Medril and Valodon, the Haiti branch, believed that the counterfeit manufacturer had used pharval's old bottles to fill in fake products containing dier-hyleneglycol and sold them to hospitals and pharmacies.

　　 For example, consumer goods. Counterfeit goods Big events:

In 1990, the "Blue Horizon" brand washing powder sold in the United Kingdom was counterfeited, using corrosive industrial soda instead of washing compounds, causing consumers to burn their hands.

In 1996, the US Customs revealed a South Korean counterfeit crime organization and arrested 34 South Korean criminal suspects. The Customs seized 27 million dollars worth of counterfeit goods, which were imported into the US market through the US criminal organization. Accessories Sportswear, labels and so on.

In 1996, the Scotland Association of smoked trout industry published a report that fake smoked trout had devastated the smoked trout industry in the country. Counterfeit makers used Nordic Norway trout or Scotland local trout instead of Scotland trout, wrapped in Scotland's unique lattice cloth, and smoked trout, a famous brand May and Glen, posing as genuine products. The annual market revenue of counterfeit smoked trout reached 50 million pounds.

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In 1997, Orlando held an International Conference on combating counterfeit and shoddy products in the United States. A series of data released at the conference roughly outlined the flood picture of fake commodities in twentieth Century, especially in the latter half of the twentieth Century.

In the past 1990~1995 years and five years, the growth rate of formal trade in the world was 47%, while the growth rate of counterfeit trade in the same period was 150%, forming an upside down trend.

According to the information at that time, the industry of global counterfeit goods covers almost all fields, from ordinary consumer goods to high-tech products, it is difficult to escape, such as space shuttle parts, computers, satellite detectors, racing cars, food, cosmetics, clothing, sports equipment, shoes and hats, leather products, medicines and so on. Counterfeit goods are mainly imitated by high value and hot selling brands and hot products.

In the latter half of the twentieth Century, France lost 5 billion francs per year because of counterfeiting of famous brand goods.

An official of the British International Chamber of Commerce once sighed, "the phenomenon of counterfeit goods is very serious. The Far East is rampant and the British can not escape it. Counterfeiting activities are often mixed with gangs and drugs. It is very difficult to investigate and punish."