China the source of 70% of world's knock-off goods, MAC official says

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China is the world's largest source and market for counterfeit goods and the poor-quality products that it makes will seriously hurt its economy and pose a major latent threat to public security, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Vice Chairman You Ying-lung (???) claimed yesterday.
Citing the finding of a report commissioned by the MAC, You said that due to the Chinese authorities' lax controls, about 70 percent of the world's bootleg products come from China, ranging from brand-name clothing to medicine. Nearly 90 percent of consumers have purchased such fake products, he claimed.

Quoting statistics compiled by China's General Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine, You said that counterfeit goods worth a total of 11.1 billion yuan (US$1.34 billion) were seized by Chinese law enforcement authorities from April 2001 to October last year, posing great losses to consumers and original producers.

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