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1. Heineken and Budweiser beers. Beer counterfeiters tend to use shoddy glass, and consumers have repeatedly been hurt by exploding bottles.
2. Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Haagen-Dazs, and several foreign cheese brands.
3. Head and Shoulders and Rejoice shampoos.
4. Cisco and 3Com network cards.
5. 40 types of brand name cigarettes that contain a third more nicotine and carbon monoxide, and three quarters more tar than legal brands. They also frequently contained ingredients such as sand or plastic.
6. Tires and batteries.
7. Tommy Bahama, Polo, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Hermes, Lacoste, Hugo Boss, and Armani.
8. Game Boy cartridges.
9. Eyewear like Gucci, Versace, and Louis Vuitton.
10. Ford Motor auto parts.
11. Syngenta insecticide.
12. DVDs.
13. The Creative MuVo was pirated by forty different companies. When one operation is closed, another pops up. Creative has resorted to using Chinese manufacturers to make bargain versions of its products for the Chinese market, to be sold below the price of the more polished versions the company sells elsewhere.
14. Harry Potter books. Their success is so pronounced that Chinese counterfeiters have produced their own original volumes of Potter stories and sold them under Rowling's name.
15. Fake rabies vaccines made only of saline solution. They were sold to rural clinics in areas of China where rabies is still a serious threat.
16. Yamaha motorbikes. Yamaha sued and was awarded just $109,000 in damages. Of the 11 million motorcycles produced in China in 2002, 9 million were imitations of Japanese products.
17. Toyota sued the Chinese auto manufacturer Geely for using the Toyota logo and name in trying to sell one of their cars. The court ruled that China did not recognize Toyota's logo.
18. Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony, Philips, and Sanyo DVD players.
19. Bird flu vaccines.
20. 90% of Microsoft products in China are pirated.
According to Carratu International, a leading British corporate investigations firm whose practice focuses on abuses of intellectual property, 9% of world trade today is counterfeit, bet as China's presence in global markets grows, the counterfeit trade will more than double before the end of the decade.
2. Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Haagen-Dazs, and several foreign cheese brands.
3. Head and Shoulders and Rejoice shampoos.
4. Cisco and 3Com network cards.
5. 40 types of brand name cigarettes that contain a third more nicotine and carbon monoxide, and three quarters more tar than legal brands. They also frequently contained ingredients such as sand or plastic.
6. Tires and batteries.
7. Tommy Bahama, Polo, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Hermes, Lacoste, Hugo Boss, and Armani.
8. Game Boy cartridges.
9. Eyewear like Gucci, Versace, and Louis Vuitton.
10. Ford Motor auto parts.
11. Syngenta insecticide.
12. DVDs.
13. The Creative MuVo was pirated by forty different companies. When one operation is closed, another pops up. Creative has resorted to using Chinese manufacturers to make bargain versions of its products for the Chinese market, to be sold below the price of the more polished versions the company sells elsewhere.
14. Harry Potter books. Their success is so pronounced that Chinese counterfeiters have produced their own original volumes of Potter stories and sold them under Rowling's name.
15. Fake rabies vaccines made only of saline solution. They were sold to rural clinics in areas of China where rabies is still a serious threat.
16. Yamaha motorbikes. Yamaha sued and was awarded just $109,000 in damages. Of the 11 million motorcycles produced in China in 2002, 9 million were imitations of Japanese products.
17. Toyota sued the Chinese auto manufacturer Geely for using the Toyota logo and name in trying to sell one of their cars. The court ruled that China did not recognize Toyota's logo.
18. Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony, Philips, and Sanyo DVD players.
19. Bird flu vaccines.
20. 90% of Microsoft products in China are pirated.
According to Carratu International, a leading British corporate investigations firm whose practice focuses on abuses of intellectual property, 9% of world trade today is counterfeit, bet as China's presence in global markets grows, the counterfeit trade will more than double before the end of the decade.
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