Made in India, faked in China, $5-bn loss

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Strict action must be taken against those who import such products from China since it's the only way to solve the issue.
I dont understand why Chinese manufacturers need to carry out such activities when they have such cheap labor. They could probably make more profits establishing their own brands and offering better products at competitive prices rather than selling poorly imitated products at very low prices.

 

[rcrmj]

Strict action must be taken against those who import such products from China since it's the only way to solve the issue.
I dont understand why Chinese manufacturers need to carry out such activities when they have such cheap labor. They could probably make more profits establishing their own brands and offering better products at competitive prices rather than selling poorly imitated products at very low prices.

they are mostly Indians``you need just one short visit in southen party of Chinese cities, you'd find too many of them buying stuff from there and shipped to other countries

 

[Chung wah]

China's Dirty business.

Chinese manufacturers are increasingly ''faking'' popular Indian products of consumer goods giants such as Dabur and ITC, undermining the legitimacy of brands and causing losses worth as much as $5 billion annually, officials said.

“A lot of counterfeit Dabur products are made in China. We have conducted at least 20 raids in China but no proper action has been taken by the Chinese,” said Ashok Jain, general manager of finance at Dabur India, the country’s fourth largest FMCG firm.

He said such fake products manufactured in China with “Made-in-India” tag are supplied across the world, mostly in India and African countries.

“It causes huge damage to the brand. Those fake products are obviously not up to our standards and supplied at very low prices,” Jain said.

Dabur, which has nearly $4 billion market capitalisation, operates in key consumer product categories like healthcare, skin care, hair care and oral care. The company’s revenue last fiscal was $910 million.

Pradeep Dixit, a senior official of ITC, a $33 billion conglomerate, said the popular FMCG brands of the company were counterfeited by unscrupulous firms and supplied in domestic as well as foreign markets. “Our popular cigarette brand is faked and supplied widely in the states like Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh,” he said.

“China is a big problem everybody is facing,” said Central Board of Excise and Customs Chairman S K Goel said.

Goel said the big international brands like Nokia, Adidas, Reebok and Nivea were also widely counterfeited in China and supplied in India and other parts of the world.

Chinese manufacturers are also faking drugs, endangering lives of patients. Fake drugs, carrying “Made in India” tags, supplied from China were recently detained in Nigeria and other African countries.

Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) K K Vyas said the police have seized and confiscated a lot of fake and counterfeited products of popular brands in the national capital recently.

Vyas emphasised on the need for enhancing punishment for unscrupulous manufacturers and importers. “Punishment needs to be enhanced. Also there is a need for the Judiciary to address these issues quickly,” he said.

“Counterfeiting is a big menace. It is hurting everybody - consumers, industry and the exchequer,” said Anil Rajput, chairman of the anti-smuggling and anti-counterfeiting committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci).

Recently, Ficci formed a panel called “Ficci-Cascade” that expands into a committee on anti-smuggling and counterfeiting activities destroying the economy. Chaired by Rajput, the committee is working closely with the government to curb this menace.

According to a report by think tank Indiaforensic Research Foundation, the total loss to the economy annually due to crimes such as counterfeiting, commercial fraud, smuggling, drug trafficking, bank fraud, tax evasion and graft is estimated at Rs 22,528 crore.


PS: Growing by faking other countries products, hacking other countries systems, is no greatness .



Made in India, faked in China

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

they are mostly Indians``you need just one short visit in southen party of Chinese cities, you'd find too many of them buying stuff from there and shipped to other countries

Both traders from india and manufacturers from China dealing with counterfeit drugs should be punished.
Its question of health not of some fancy luxury items...

 

[mrwarrior006]

Wow Amazing reading the replies from chinese and pakistan friends tey are so mature in their thought process tat tey advice us to quit whining and crying,get used to it and all tat stuff(and when it comes to MFN status tey wouldn give it funny people)

i wonder what would have been their replies if instead of china tha name would have been America
probably it would be like
1.Indians we told u not to be with america
2.tey are double face Snake
3.don trust them etc
4.then there would have been huge cry tat america will destroy india so we should all unite and bla bla stuff

 

[Götterdämmerung]

It's an open secret that most of the Chinese made fakes that are sold in Germany are ordered by dodgy German companies. Often the Chinese manufacturer doesn't even know the German brand or what they do is illegal, because the German customer pretends to be the legitimate holder of the patent. You need two to make this kind of business to work. Also, whenever I have an assignment to China, many of my friends ask me to bring them fake stuffs that are too expensive here in Germany. Fake Montblanc fountain pens (for men) and designer bags (for the ladies) are one of the favoured items. Of course I wouldn't do that as I would be the idiot if I get caught at the custom.

 

[Delhi-Belly]

its normal in china..they were running fake apple show room for one year