The authorities of Nghe An province coordinate to inspect and handle a gold trading enterprise that has counterfeited trademarks in Dien Chau district (Photo: Department of Market Management of Nghe An province)
The above situation has placed high demands on the authorities in fighting, preventing and strictly handling violations. Thereby, it also partly restores fairness for honest businesses, avoids loss of State budget resources and, above all, ensures the rights of consumers.
Accordingly, regarding the problem of counterfeit and counterfeit goods, recently, Market Management Team No. 11 – Department of Market Management of Nghe An province has made a record of administrative violations and submitted them to the competent authority for decision on handling. A fine of 85,000,000 VND for the act of trading in counterfeit trademark goods of a local business.
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Specifically, in mid-April, implementing the direction of the Prime Minister, the General Department of Market Management, and the Department of Market Management of Nghe An province on strengthening gold market management measures, Market Management Team No. 11 coordinated with The Economic Security Department, Nghe An Provincial Police organized a surprise inspection of a gold store of a private enterprise in Dien Chau district, Nghe An province.
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Through inspection, the authorities discovered that at the store there were 2 yellow metal jewelry bracelets bearing the CHANEL brand with signs of brand counterfeiting, with a value of nearly 25,000,000 VND. Not only that, this business also operates a social networking site to sell goods with signs of counterfeiting the above mentioned brands.
At the time of inspection, the gold business representative could not present invoices, legal documents proving the origin and documents accompanying the above goods. Therefore, based on the provisions of current law, the authorities have sealed and temporarily seized the number of exhibits with the above violation marks to verify and clarify the violation elements.
Hundreds of boxes of cosmetics of unknown origin that had not yet reached consumers were discovered by the authorities and forced to destroy them all.
According to the Information Management Department of Nghe An province, in the coming time, the unit will continue to closely follow the general direction, build an information supply base, and strengthen coordination with relevant functional forces to manage the situation. Managing establishments selling gold metal products. Do not allow speculation and hoarding, unreasonable price increases as well as trading in gold items of unknown origin, goods that violate intellectual property…
Similarly, another case discovered and handled also caused consumers and local public opinion to raise many concerns about the problem of counterfeit goods and goods of unknown origin appearing widely on the market. Nghe An. Specifically, on April 19, 2024, Nghe An province’s market management force coordinated with local police to conduct a surprise inspection of a cosmetics business in Thanh Thinh commune, Thanh Chuong district; Thereby, it was discovered that there were 600 boxes of cosmetics of all kinds without invoices or documents proving their origin.
On the other hand, the inspection team also discovered that this cosmetics business operates in the form of a business household but does not register according to State regulations. Therefore, based on the above violations, the Market Management force decided to impose an administrative fine of 24.5 million VND on the owner of this business establishment; At the same time, they were forced to destroy all 600 boxes of cosmetics of unknown origin.
>>Prevent counterfeit and counterfeit goods on e-commerce platforms
According to the assessment of the authorities, if you only look and observe with the naked eye, it is very difficult to detect whether the goods are fake, counterfeit brand goods, poor quality goods or goods of unknown origin. . In particular, in the current 4.0 era, when the trend of doing business on e-commerce platforms and social networking sites is exploding, it will lead to the existence and inadequacies related to the above problem, making the opportunity even worse. It is difficult for authorities to control thoroughly.
Meanwhile, in Nghe An, there is a large number of consumers who always have a “cheap-hungry” mentality and have not clearly identified what is fake and what is real, so they are easily exploited by business owners. Therefore, the Department of Product Management of Nghe An province recommends that consumers should pay attention to carefully choosing safe products with clear origins before purchasing for use; Avoid possible unfortunate consequences.
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