According to Attorney Mr.Xinyu Lee in SSPO (Stein Shostak Shostak Pollack&O’Hara, LLP) Shanghai branch that are specialized in U.S. Customs laws, although the economy is weak and import down, U.S. Customs and Border Protection made large seizures of merchandise in violation of intellectual property rights (IPR) laws, an increase of about 357 and valued 71.4 million U.S. dollars. It is increased by 148% compare with 2007 fiscal year, the number of seizure cases also rise 50%.
Los Angeles Customs officials Todd Hoffman announced the news. He attributed these achievements in law enforcement by the U.S. Customs and other federal agencies such as the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). About CPSC staff stationed on Customs ports, can be found in China Apparel’s report on January 14 of this year, “CPSC will Strengthen Cooperation with U.S. Customs to Prevent Unsafe Production Import”.
As an international financial crisis and economic downturn in the United States, foreign exports to the U.S. have become a very serious situation. The number of large-scale seizures also increased. U.S. Customs forecast, new methods of law enforcement will cause the intellectual property seizure cases increased more in future.
