Nike agreed to sell limited products to Amazon in exchange for stricter policing of counterfeit goods and restrictions on unsanctioned sales of its products.

Jessie Zheng, chief risk officer responsible for data and information security across Alibaba's platforms, said the company has made efforts to prevent and control risks not only by identifying counterfeit goods and malicious complaints but identifying abnormal transactions.

Skyworth has asked Pinduoduo to stop selling counterfeit versions of its products on its site.

The State Administration for Market Regulation has ordered local market watchdogs to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit and shoddy goods.

The State Administration for Market Regulation on Thursday ordered local market regulators to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit and shoddy goods after alleged violations by Pinduoduo sparked heated discussion.

The State Administration for Market Regulation released an announcement on its official website on Wednesday, which said that they are paying significant attention to the many reports of infringement and counterfeit products sold on Pinduoduo's e-commerce site.

Pinduoduo said in an announcement released later on Wednesday that it will cooperate with market regulators, further cracking down on infringement and counterfeit products sold on the platform.

"Pinduoduo has never produced a single counterfeit product and has been making all efforts to crack down on such goods.

Skyworth was the first company to urge Pinduoduo to stop displaying and allowing sales of counterfeit products, but is by no means alone in its allegations.

The State Administration for Market Regulation is paying close attention to media reports about counterfeit goods sold by online group discounter Pinduoduo, according to a statement on the markets regulator's official website.

Skyworth on Saturday issued a statement on Sina Weibo demanding that Pinduoduo stop selling counterfeit versions of its products on the platform.

Television manufacturer Skyworth Group Co Ltd has issued a statement demanding that online group discounter Pinduoduo Inc stop selling counterfeit versions of its products on the platform.

Moreover, they have been criticized for featuring video hosts who make and distribute counterfeit products on their videos.

To solve the problem thoroughly, the Ministry of Public Security launched a campaign against those harming IP rights in December, ordering police officers not only to detain those selling counterfeits, but also to seek and fight people who produced the items or organized counterfeit activity.

Last January, Alibaba joined 20 brands to fight counterfeit goods through big data analysis.

com, returned this month to the US Trade Representative's blacklist of "notorious markets" known for selling counterfeit goods and violations of intellectual property rights.

Out of every 10,000 requests to return products last year, 1.49 were initiated as consumers suspected the goods were counterfeit, compared with 2.1 in the previous year, according to the 2017 Alibaba Intellectual Property Protection Annual Report.

The report is the first since Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, called for counterfeit goods to be tackled in the same way as drunken driving early last year.

Last year, Alibaba tipped off police about 1,910 cases of suspected sales or production of counterfeit goods, which resulted in police officers catching 1,606 suspects, according to the report.

com is always faulted by customers and media due to some fake products and low product stock from some individual stores, although the e-commerce giant has invested a great deal of money and manpower to clear away counterfeit and poor quality commodities.

Alibaba's Storehouse of Counterfeit Evidence is a 300-square-meter warehouse in Alibaba Group's Xixi Park, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

The team uses big data to identify counterfeits and the vendors, affiliated dealers and factories suspected of producing or selling counterfeit items.

Alibaba's cooperation with local authorities to locate counterfeit sources has proved effective.

In 2016, Alibaba submitted 1,184 leads to law enforcement agencies; helped public security bureaus arrest 880 suspects; assisted in the closure of 1,419 counterfeit manufacturing locations; and helped seize merchandise worth more than 3 billion yuan ($455 million).

In August, with evidence from Alibaba, police in Loudi, Hunan province, broke up a ring producing and selling counterfeit weight-loss drugs, with a sales network in more than 20 provinces.

However, the penalties for counterfeit producers and sellers are not enough of a deterrent, Wang conceded.

Many counterfeit makers receive suspended sentences or fines.

"Everyone can do their bit to stop counterfeit goods.

Cainiao, a courier aggregator financially backed by Alibaba, said SF had rejected Cainiao's proposal to provide more comprehensive logistics data to detect counterfeit shipments, and unilaterally terminated data sharing from its self-pickup outlet service on Thursday.

Regulatory oversight will be strengthened, and production and sales of counterfeit and substandard goods will be resolutely curbed, in order to uphold fair competition.

"Plan noted that the bilateral agreement between the EU and China, which protects around 200 iconic European and Chinese agri-food brands against usurpation and counterfeit imitation, will help further promote cooperation on agri-food trade between the two sides.

Guidelines on protecting intellectual property rights in cross-border e-commerce will be drafted, to deter counterfeit and substandard goods.

Management of cross-border e-commerce import and export returns and exchanges will be made more convenient, while guidelines on protecting intellectual property rights in cross-border e-commerce will be drafted in order to deter counterfeit and substandard goods, the meeting agreed.

The capital city destroyed counterfeit goods related to the epidemic worth about 3 million yuan and issued China's first-ever maximum penalty of 3 million yuan for pricing violations.

The comment came after the US Treasury Department recently slapped sanctions on seven entities and six people based in China, accusing them of enabling counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pill production.

Going forward, relevant departments will also further strengthen supervision and regulations and crack down on illegal activities such as price gouging, monopolistic behavior, and the sale of counterfeit and shoddy products in the industry, the MIIT said.

Accordingly, the notice also urged supervision departments across the country to strengthen regulation of hoarding and selling resources such as power stations, forcibly requiring investment in PV-related industries as well as purchasing local products, and step up efforts in cracking down on illegal activities such as price gouging, monopolies, and the manufacture and sale of counterfeit and shoddy products.

Still, there is no perfect industry standard, and counterfeit products have interfered with the operation and good development of the market," said Wang Xin, chairman of CIQA.

"For some iconic styles, some manufacturers are more likely to make counterfeit products to imitate them, and there are times that the products we inspected were fake.

For luxury brands, one of the biggest benefits in actively joining the secondhand luxury sector is to know more about the authenticity of secondhand products circulating in the market, as numerous counterfeit products remain the biggest pain point of the secondhand market, industry experts said.

"However, with the rapid development of livestreaming e-commerce, new problems are also popping up, such as illegal sales of counterfeit goods.

The new measures, jointly released on April 23 by the Cyberspace Administration of China and six other government departments, aim to protect the rights and interests of consumers and minors and tackle problems including false advertising and sales of counterfeit and substandard goods.

More than 5.2 million pieces of counterfeit and shoddy epidemic prevention exports were seized in 2020, said Cai Chunhao, director of the commodity inspection department of Shanghai Customs at a news conference on Monday.

Experts say Huaqiang North is on the right track in its new pursuit of prosperity, but its reputation for shanzhai - counterfeit consumer goods - has overshadowed its development.

But challenges remain, including the lack of large-scale production, counterfeit products and the high costs of marketing on e-commerce platforms, Yu said.

"In the old days when software was stored on floppy disks or CDs, counterfeit products were widespread.

This is expected to bring order to the sector that has developed rapidly and chaotically in the past few years, resulting in problems like counterfeit products, said Dong Yizhi, a researcher at the China E-Commerce Research Center, or CECRC.

Chinese online retailers have stepped up efforts to crack down on counterfeit products sold by third-party vendors on their online marketplaces.

It also said it would step up efforts to combat the manufacture and sale of counterfeit or substandard goods, including products that try to pass themselves off as well-known brands.

Chinese internet companies, including Alibaba, JD, Suning and Meituan-Dianping, made promises on Wednesday, saying they are determined not to manufacture and sell counterfeit products, evade taxes, mislead, cheat or threaten consumers to delete and revise after-sale evaluations.

Li Junhui, an intellectual property researcher at the China University of Political Science and Law, said: "Only through cooperation among multiple parties can we stop the circulation of counterfeit goods from source and prevent them from endangering the market order and harming the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. "

The carmaker decided not to recall the affected products in China after filing a recall of about 17,600 Aston Martins in the United States, blaming counterfeit materials bought from a little-known tertiary supplier in China.

About 6.3 million of these tiny corner shops are operated by married couples in the countryside, amid concerns over counterfeit products, overpricing and unqualified services.

Cases of illegal fund-raising, pyramid selling, online peer-to-peer fraud, securities and futures crime, counterfeit money and bank card fraud have infringed on the interests of investors and undermined market stability.

Internet operators who are aware of retailers selling counterfeit products online and yet continue to provide them with services will be punished, a judge at the Beijing Intellectual Property Court said.

In recent years, some Western countries have claimed that Chinese merchants are able to sell counterfeit goods, both online and offline, because China's trademark protection measures are inadequate and leniency is shown toward those guilty of infringement.

For example, it awarded fresh punitive damages to a retailer who despite warnings from Mast-Jagermeister SE — an alcoholic beverage company based in Germany — continued selling counterfeit bottles of the company's flagship Jagermeister drink.

While the legal protection of IP rights has been intensified, the State Administration for Market Regulation has taken various measures to crack down on counterfeit products on e-commerce platforms.

Ahead of online shopping festivals, the administration issued notices to internet service providers, requiring them to increase scrutiny of online retailers' identities and block web links if they received reports about counterfeit goods.

The Ministry of Public Security on Monday asked police nationwide to crack down on the illegal production and sale of counterfeit COVID-19 drugs, testing reagents, oxygen generators, blood oxygen meters and other related supplies.