China News Agency, Beijing, April 22 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) According to data released by the General Administration of Customs of China on the 22nd, in 2021, customs across the country took intellectual property protection measures 84,000 times, and actually detained more than 71 million imported and exported suspected infringing goods.
Among them, electronic appliances, tobacco products, clothing, shoes and hats were detained the most.
According to official data, the customs seized goods infringing intellectual property rights still mainly infringe on trademark rights, but the number of infringing seizures of patents, copyrights, and Olympic logo exclusive rights increased rapidly. 814,700 pieces of copyright-infringing goods were detained, and 8,380 pieces of goods suspected of infringing the exclusive rights of the Olympic logo were detained.
With the development of new forms of Internet business, cross-border e-commerce channels have gradually become the focus of national customs enforcement.
In the whole year of 2021, customs across the country seized 17,800 batches and 1,995,700 pieces of suspected cross-border e-commerce infringing goods, and the proportion of detained batches and quantities in non-freight channel law enforcement increased from 11.69% and 9.93% in 2020, respectively. 23.25% and 18.11% by 2021.
The General Administration of Customs said that in 2021, China Customs will maintain a high-pressure situation to crack down on imported and exported infringing commodities, and will continue to focus on key commodities with strong public feedback, public opinion, and frequent infringement and counterfeiting, especially for import and export of infringements that are related to life and health and threaten public safety. Commodity behavior to implement a heavy blow.
For example, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Huangpu and other customs have carried out special enforcement of counterfeit auto parts, detaining more than 588,000 infringing engine parts, filters, wipers, etc.
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