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Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator<br />

counterfeit automotive parts is increasing in the United States,”<br />

and that the trend line is “growing at an alarming rate”),<br />

accessed from https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/intellectual-property-rights-center-warns-counterfeit-auto-parts.<br />

109<br />

United States Department of Homeland Security, Customs<br />

and Border Protection, “CBP Seizes Thousands of<br />

Counterfeit Auto Parts at Port Everglades,” (May 15, 2015),<br />

accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/2015-05-15-000000/cbp-seizes-thousands-counterfeitauto-parts-port.<br />

110<br />

See United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “Counterfeit<br />

Products,” (2010) at p.174., accessed from https://www.<br />

unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/8.Counterfeit_products.pdf.<br />

111<br />

See European Commission, DG Health and Food Safety,<br />

“Ad-hoc Study on the Trade of Illegal and Counterfeit Pesticides<br />

in the EU” (March 2015) (estimating counterfeit pesticides<br />

constitute up to 10% of Europe’s crop protection market),<br />

accessed from https://croplife.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf_files/<br />

DG-Health-Food-Safety-study-on-the-trade-of-illegal-and-counterfeit-pesticides-in-the-EU-March-2015.pdf;<br />

Organization for<br />

Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), “Counteraction<br />

to Counterfeit and Contraband Pesticides” (2015) (reporting<br />

that “[c]ounterfeit pesticides are estimated to be as high as 25%<br />

of the global pesticide market” with profitability in counterfeit<br />

pesticide trade making “it one of the top ten most lucrative<br />

organized crime businesses”), accessed from http://www.osce.<br />

org/secretariat/192516?download=true. See also Federation of<br />

Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), “Study On<br />

Substandard, Spurious/Counterfeit Pesticides in India” (2015) (estimating<br />

trade in counterfeit pesticides in India at approximately<br />

USD 525 million per year, resulting in more than 10 million tons of<br />

food production loss each year), accessed from https://croplife.<br />

org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Study-on-sub-standard-spurious-counterfeit-pesticides-in-India.pdf.<br />

112<br />

See Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development,<br />

“The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy:<br />

Executive Summary,” (2007) at p.17, accessed from https://<br />

www.oecd.org/sti/38707619.pdf.<br />

113<br />

See Europol and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal<br />

Market, “2015 Situation Report on Counterfeiting in the<br />

European Union” (2015) at p.26, accessed from https://www.<br />

europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/2015situationreportoncounterfeiting.pdf.<br />

See also Europol, “Huge Seizures<br />

of 190 Tonnes of Counterfeit Pesticides” (December 18,<br />

2015), accessed from https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/<br />

huge-seizures-190-tonnes-counterfeit-pesticides.<br />

114<br />

See Europol, “Europol Warns of Growing Trade in Counterfeit<br />

Pesticides Worth Billions of Euros a Year,” accessed from<br />

https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/europol-warns-growing-trade-counterfeit-pesticides-worth-billions-euros-year.<br />

115<br />

See INTERPOL, “Environmental Crime and its Convergence<br />

with other Serious Crimes” (October 30, 2015), accessed<br />

from http://www.interpol.int/Media/Files/Crime-areas/Environmental-crime/INTERPOL-Strategic-Report-Environmental-Crime-and-its-Convergence-with-other-Serious-Crimes/.<br />

See also United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, “Transnational<br />

Organized Crime in East Asia and the Pacific: A Threat<br />

Assessment,” (April 2013) at pp.ix,117, accessed from https://<br />

www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Studies/TOC-<br />

TA_EAP_web.pdf.<br />

116<br />

See INTERPOL, “Against Organized Crime: INTERPOL<br />

Trafficking And Counterfeiting Casebook 2014,” accessed<br />

from http://www.interpol.int/Media/Files/Crime-areas/Trafficking-in-Illicit-Goods/Against-Organized-Crime-INTERPOL-Trafficking-and-Counterfeiting-Casebook.<br />

117<br />

See United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement,<br />

“Michigan Computer Company, Owner Sentences for International<br />

Environmental and Counterfeiting Crimes,” (March<br />

2013), accessed from https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/michigan-computer-company-owner-sentenced-international-environmental-and#wcm-survey-target-id.<br />

118<br />

See Soetgen, Judith, “Disposing of Counterfeit Goods:<br />

Unseen Challenges,” (WIPO Magazine: November 2012), accessed<br />

from http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2012/06/<br />

article_0007.html.<br />

119<br />

See INTERPOL, “Environmental Crime and its Convergence<br />

with other Serious Crimes” (October 30, 2015), accessed<br />

from http://www.interpol.int/Media/Files/Crime-areas/Environmental-crime/INTERPOL-Strategic-Report-Environmental-Crime-and-its-Convergence-with-other-Serious-Crimes/.<br />

120<br />

See, e.g., United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,<br />

“The Illicit Trafficking of Counterfeit Goods and Transnational<br />

Organized Crime,” accessed from https://www.unodc.<br />

org/documents/counterfeit/FocusSheet/Counterfeit_focussheet_EN_HIRES.pdf;<br />

Anti-Slavery International, “Trafficking for<br />

Forced Criminal Activities and Begging in Europe” (September<br />

2014) at p.26 (noting that reports in the U.K. where foreign<br />

nationals were alleged to have been locked in warehouses,<br />

or children being forced to produce and sell pirated DVDs),<br />

accessed from http://www.antislavery.org/includes/documents/<br />

cm_docs/2014/t/2_trafficking_for_forced_criminal_activities_<br />

and_begging_in_europe.pdf.<br />

121<br />

See, e.g., United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,<br />

“The Illicit Trafficking of Counterfeit Goods and Transnational<br />

Organized Crime,” accessed from https://www.unodc.org/<br />

documents/counterfeit/FocusSheet/Counterfeit_focussheet_<br />

EN_HIRES.pdf.<br />

122<br />

See, e.g., Europol, “OCTA 2011: EU Organised Crime Threat<br />

Assessment,” (2011) at p.36, accessed from https://www.<br />

europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/octa2011.pdf.<br />

See also International Labour Office Geneva, “Labour Market<br />

Discrimination Against Migrant Workers in Italy,” (September<br />

2004), accessed from http://ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/-<br />

--ed_protect/---protrav/---migrant/documents/publication/<br />

wcms_201593.pdf.<br />

123<br />

See Europol, “OCTA 2011: EU Organised Crime Threat<br />

Assessment,” (2011) at p.36, accessed from https://www.<br />

europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/octa2011.pdf.<br />

See also Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development,<br />

“The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting,” (1998) (noting<br />

that organized and petty criminals profit largely from counterfeiting),<br />

accessed from https://www.oecd.org/sti/ind/2090589.pdf.<br />

124<br />

See, e.g., United States Office of the Intellectual Property<br />

Enforcement Coordinator, “Intellectual Property Spotlight”<br />

(December 2010), at p.2, accessed from https://www.justice.<br />

gov/sites/default/files/dag/legacy/2011/01/05/ipec-ip-spotlightdec2010.pdf.<br />

See also United States Department of Justice,<br />

“Three Sentenced to Federal Prison for Forcing Labor and<br />

Distributing Pirated/Counterfeit CDs and DVDs,” (October 14,<br />

2011), accessed from https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/<br />

criminal-ccips/legacy/2012/03/15/lopezSent.pdf.<br />

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