Jack, I am so grateful to CBP for catching these counterfeit items and drugs. It makes me wonder how many got through customs? Thank you, Jack for keeping us Patriots informed.
Mary: Thank you for reading my article & taking the time to comment. I don't have any information about how many of these counterfeit goods entering the US are evading detection, but based on the growing number of seizures being reported you can conclude either the Chinese counterfeiters are ramping up production or CBP is ramping up enforcement. (I suspect its a combination of both).
In any case the recent interceptions of counterfeit prescription drugs should be a real cause for worry. People could die if the shipments of "fake drugs" to the US aren't stopped.
Thanks for covering another fringe-but-significant story, indicative of how future trade relations with the CCP might be expected to evolve.
I have no idea if more should be done, because I don't know what they're doing now to monitor counterfeiting. But the pharmaceutical issue is a major problem. It seems like we're going to be forced to rapidly reduce dependency on China, unless the capitalist coalition from Shanghai can oust Xi and his CCP henchmen...things are in flux over there:
People laugh at my reliance on amateur citizen journalists. But the only thing that confers quasi legitimacy on mainstream journalism is a recognizable masthead; and we know how often that's been abused. If citizen journalism had been available to anyone with a phone during the original cold war, we might have anticipated the USSR's sudden collapse.
Or maybe not; geopolitical "experts" still seem to engage in far too much log-rolling. I've heard so many people with impressive bona fides parroting each other's talking points, while failing to monitor street-level action that citizen journos report on. Weirdly, these folks make predictions every week that turn out to be spectacularly wrong, but their fans hardly seem to notice.
Again, thank you for another thoughtful reply. I agree that counterfeit pharmaceuticals from China ought to be a huge red flag. These could potentially kill someone!
The proximal danger is that a few people die from them. The ultimate danger is that a major portion of our supply chain is suddenly untrustworthy, without alternatives in the pipeline. Think of the 2022-2023 banking crisis, due to erroneous Fed guidance in 2021, which caused banks to invest in long-horizon T bills when they should have held more short-term assets for the rainy day caused by Fed announcements to the contrary in 2022. The actual damage would have been far less severe, without all the bankers wrongly anticipating that they could trust Fed policy. The real danger of the China shock is that trade relations are disrupted suddenly due to trust issues, which are very difficult to unwind.
Jack very thankful for you and your reporting. As a consignor of high end consigning thus is always a dangerous situation for buyers and sellers alike. Great heads up especially for this industry.
The pharmaceuticals is life threatening to be sure. Xi should be charged with endangerment et all.
Some companies like Louis Vuitton have hand bags produced in Chinese factories and the factories will run off knockoff batches using the same templates and materials the they export and undercut pricing of the originals.
Jack, I am so grateful to CBP for catching these counterfeit items and drugs. It makes me wonder how many got through customs? Thank you, Jack for keeping us Patriots informed.
Mary: Thank you for reading my article & taking the time to comment. I don't have any information about how many of these counterfeit goods entering the US are evading detection, but based on the growing number of seizures being reported you can conclude either the Chinese counterfeiters are ramping up production or CBP is ramping up enforcement. (I suspect its a combination of both).
In any case the recent interceptions of counterfeit prescription drugs should be a real cause for worry. People could die if the shipments of "fake drugs" to the US aren't stopped.
Thanks for covering another fringe-but-significant story, indicative of how future trade relations with the CCP might be expected to evolve.
I have no idea if more should be done, because I don't know what they're doing now to monitor counterfeiting. But the pharmaceutical issue is a major problem. It seems like we're going to be forced to rapidly reduce dependency on China, unless the capitalist coalition from Shanghai can oust Xi and his CCP henchmen...things are in flux over there:
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People laugh at my reliance on amateur citizen journalists. But the only thing that confers quasi legitimacy on mainstream journalism is a recognizable masthead; and we know how often that's been abused. If citizen journalism had been available to anyone with a phone during the original cold war, we might have anticipated the USSR's sudden collapse.
Or maybe not; geopolitical "experts" still seem to engage in far too much log-rolling. I've heard so many people with impressive bona fides parroting each other's talking points, while failing to monitor street-level action that citizen journos report on. Weirdly, these folks make predictions every week that turn out to be spectacularly wrong, but their fans hardly seem to notice.
Again, thank you for another thoughtful reply. I agree that counterfeit pharmaceuticals from China ought to be a huge red flag. These could potentially kill someone!
The proximal danger is that a few people die from them. The ultimate danger is that a major portion of our supply chain is suddenly untrustworthy, without alternatives in the pipeline. Think of the 2022-2023 banking crisis, due to erroneous Fed guidance in 2021, which caused banks to invest in long-horizon T bills when they should have held more short-term assets for the rainy day caused by Fed announcements to the contrary in 2022. The actual damage would have been far less severe, without all the bankers wrongly anticipating that they could trust Fed policy. The real danger of the China shock is that trade relations are disrupted suddenly due to trust issues, which are very difficult to unwind.
Thank you for your well-written comment, and thank you for reading US Border News!
Jack very thankful for you and your reporting. As a consignor of high end consigning thus is always a dangerous situation for buyers and sellers alike. Great heads up especially for this industry.
The pharmaceuticals is life threatening to be sure. Xi should be charged with endangerment et all.
I agree that the fake pharmaceuticals are very scary. Thank you for reading US Border News!
Some companies like Louis Vuitton have hand bags produced in Chinese factories and the factories will run off knockoff batches using the same templates and materials the they export and undercut pricing of the originals.