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UAE has been always one of the best cooperative countries regarding the intellectual property law enforcement and here one more time Dubai DED has seized more than Dh330 million worth of fake goods.

Fake goods worth a staggering Dh332 million were seized and destroyed by Dubai authorities during 2018, new figures have revealed.

The Department of Economic Development said a total of 19.9 million counterfeit items were confiscated from traders in the emirate.

The value of fake items is down on figures from 2016, when the DED announced it had recovered goods worth Dh1.6 billion.

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UAE is one of the major trading portals in the world, as it is known to be like a trading bridge, which connects the Asian markets with the Middle East, the African markets, and some of the European markets as well.

As UAE has become one of the biggest import /export centers in the world, it has become one of the most attractive destination for counterfeits traders to distribute their fake goods across different markets.

As counterfeit products trading business is developing, the authorities are always doing their best along with the Intellectual Property private law firms such as Karas Law to develop their ways to catch these illegal traders in order to protect consumers from such bad products which can be a life threaten due to the lack of the safety standards which the genuine products follow.

Here is some news about one of the latest raids which was conducted in Ajman

• Fake goods worth over Dh82m seized in Ajman

DED-Ajman is imposing strict penalties on violators, says official Dubai: The Department of Economic Development — Ajman (DED-Ajman) has seized more than 413,277 counterfeit products of more than 40 international brands. The products are worth over Dh82.65 million.

Published: 17:43 May 7, 2018 Source: Gluf News

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