Off late many American companies are now involved with trading counterfeits, pirated & fake goods for achieving higher profits, with no concern for quality or copy right acts.
Most of these transnactions are carried out through corrupt trade networks like ERAI (Electronic Retailers Association, international), The Brokerforum etc.
Millions of Dollar counterefeits are traded through these networks every week.
Even payment facilities, escrow (Mostly under invoiced deals), visual inspection services are provided for these counterfeits to avoid interruption at various border controls and to please end users so that cosmetic quality norms do not become a reason for getting those parts trapped.
These trade networks provide value added services (mostly external parameters & visual inspection) so that even even most professional services cannot detect these counterfeits when it changes various hands right from shipper, CBP, other officials, ISO and OEMs in initial investigation and detection.
All these deals are performed in very professional and white collared way, while dealing with illegal products.
Had these trade networks refrained from supporting global counterfeit trade, world wouldn't have faced epedemic of counterfeits in every part of our life.
Main culprits are these north American trade networks who are responsible for promoting this illegal network of counterfeiting.
The whole trade becomes illegal for few reasons stated below:
1) Most of merchandises are counterfeit/pirated/back door items
2) Under invoiced deals, with no export control
3) Relabelled parts, refurbished parts, illegally upgraded parts from Commercial grade to Military grade.
4) It breaks all copy right acts and intellectual property acts.
5) Deceptive visual inspection facilities which are often used to trap a customer (oem) and to avoid inspection, investigation at export control points, customs and border security.
6) Many illegal international financial transactions carried out.
7) Many illegal exporters involved who do not have basic business license of the city of trading with dubious bank accounts.
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