GAC investigates 280 million pieces of infringing products

General Administration of Customs (GAC) publicized on April 19 that, in 2009, the customs in the whole country adopted the measure of suspension to a total of 67,000 batches of import and export products suspected of infringing intellectual property rights, and actually captured 66,000 batches, wchi were respectively increased by 4.1 times and 5 times compared with 2008; the value was 450 million yuan and increased by 53%.

"The export products still accounted for the majority viewing from the recent captured infringing products. The amount of commodities and values restively accounted for 99.9% and 99% of the total infringing products", said spokesman of GAC.