Nike wins counterfeit claims
By FashionUnited
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Nike is set to receive compensation from two Chinese shoemakers and a French supermarket group over counterfeit shoes, China's state media agency has said. According to Reuters, Jinjiang Longzhibu Shoes, Jinjiang Kangwei Shoes and France's Auchan, must pay a total of £23,300 to Nike. The fake Nike trainers were found on sale in a Shanghai store. Despite Beijing's pledges to clamp down on counterfeiting, fake goods are still widely produced and sold in China. This has led to repeated complaints from Western governments, most recently by the US, which last week formally requested that the World Trade Organisation crack down on Chinese piracy and counterfeiting.
Nike itself is one firm that has repeatedly seen its footwear and other sporting goods copied in China. Last year US authorities seized more than 135,000 fake Nike trainers that had been imported from China. China's official production work for Western firms has also come in for criticism in recent weeks. In another case, the New Zealand government has said it will investigate whether imported Chinese-made children's clothes have dangerously high levels of the chemical formaldehyde.
Nike itself is one firm that has repeatedly seen its footwear and other sporting goods copied in China. Last year US authorities seized more than 135,000 fake Nike trainers that had been imported from China. China's official production work for Western firms has also come in for criticism in recent weeks. In another case, the New Zealand government has said it will investigate whether imported Chinese-made children's clothes have dangerously high levels of the chemical formaldehyde.