[국제]US customs seize 13 million fake masks… half made in China

In the United States, it was found that’fake masks’ flooded amid the corona 19 crisis.

The Wall Street Journal reported that 13 million counterfeit masks were confiscated in the 2020 fiscal year ended September 30 last year, citing a report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection Bureau released on the 4th of the local time.

Counterfeit masks are so-called’fake’ products that infringe on the copyright of other companies, and many products imitated the products of major companies such as 3M or the masks of famous products.

In addition to masks, 177,000 corona 19 diagnostic test kits banned by the Food and Drug Administration and FDA, 38,000 tablets of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, and 37,000 so-called’antiviral necklaces’ containing substances prohibited by the Environmental Protection Agency It was confiscated over the past year.

51% of these confiscated items are of origin, the report says.

The report also shows that customs authorities have stepped up crackdown on imports made through forced labor in the Uighur region of Xinjiang, China, the newspaper analyzed.

[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]

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