Labels and Tags Rank Ninth on List of Counterfeit Seizures

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently released their Intellectual Property Rights Seizure Statistics report for fiscal year 2014, which revealed more than 23,000 seizures worth approximately $1.2 billion.

Labels/tags finished ninth on the list—just below computers/accessories. According to the report, the agencies seized 540 shipments of labels/tags (2 percent of all seizures). The good news? This number is down from 788 seizures in fiscal year 2013 (3 percent of all seizures). Wearing apparel/accessories topped the list with 7,922 seizures, accounting for 28 percent of all seizures.