Retail: Amazon: More coordination with authorities against product pirates

Retail: Amazon: More coordination with authorities against product pirates

The sale of counterfeit products by retailers via the Amazon platform has long been a major problem. Now the US company wants to work more closely with authorities.

Amazon has encouraged broader cooperation between authorities and companies in the fight against product piracy.

Among other things, better border controls and tougher action against counterfeiters in the retail industry are necessary, emphasized the world’s largest online retailer in a blog entry.

Amazon cited the exchange with the US border protection agency as positive examples of previous cooperation. In the autumn of last year, eight truckloads of articulated lorries with counterfeit radiator grilles with logos of well-known car brands were confiscated thanks to information from the retail group. In return, according to information from the American border authorities, Amazon was able to ban a provider of counterfeit earphone covers from its platform and sue. Overall, Amazon gives a list of discovered product counterfeiters to the authorities every quarter.

Selling counterfeit products by merchants through the Amazon platform has been a major problem for years. The group set up a group of around 20 experts, such as former public prosecutors, to investigate counterfeiters around the world.

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