Parallel and correlatamente to the fast increase of the Trade Free Zones it is increasing also the counterfeit traffic of goods



The fast increase of the Trade Free Zones (FTZ), where the development of the economic activity is favorite from reduced taxes and customs inspections, from a simplification of the norms and a limited supervision, is involuntarily promuovendo the increase of the counterfeit traffic of goods. It evidences a new relation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop (OCSE) and of the Office of the European Union for Intellectual Property (EUIPO). The integral search a study of 2016 of the EUIPO and the OCSE based on which the value of the counterfeit produced ones was estimated pairs to 2.5% of the world-wide commerce, succeeding in to total a value of 338 billion euros.

In particular, the entitled document "Trade in Counterfeit Goods and Free Trade Zones. Evidence from recent trands" explains that the counterfeit exports of usurpative goods and goods from a country or an economy increase in parallel with the number and to the dimensions of the zones france that such area accommodates. The relationship finds that I confront between the increase of the Trade Free Zones, measured from the number of enterprises and the present dependent in the bonded areas, and of the data of the customs seizures of goods all over the world demonstrates that the creation of a new bonded area is associated to an increase of +5.9% of the value of the counterfeit exports of goods from the economy that accommodates it.

Introducing today the relationship with the executive director of the EUIPO, António Campinos, during a reunion of the Task Force of the OCSE on the fight to the illegal commerce, the director for the total relations of the OCSE, Marcos Bonturi, it has emphasized that "this is a clear demonstration of the fact that the bonded areas are used by the criminals for the traffic of goods counterfeit. We want - it has specified Bonturi - than this is a invitation to the action and we will work in the next few months in order to help the bonded areas to intensify the efforts in order to stop the illicit commerce, maintaining at the same time their role of facilitatori of the legal commerce".

A precedence relationship of the published OCSE in recent days identified the insufficient vigilance on the bonded areas, the insufficient control of the little ones packages and the incongruous endorsements at the expense of who it sends goods counterfeit as three main elements based on which political little rigorous in fact facilitate the counterfeit traffic of goods.

In the world there are more than 3.500 Trade Free Zones, often situated in proximity of the ports, 130 nations or economies of the North and South America, of the Asia-Appease region, Europe and Africa regarding solo 79 FTZ in 25 nations or economies in 1975. Altogether these FTZ create places of work for 66 million people generating benefits directed in the field of the commerce for beyond 365 billion euros (500 billion dollars).

The OCSE has remembered that own precedence relationships have demonstrated that 2.5% of the goods imported in the world and 5% of the imports of the European Union are constituted by goods counterfeit. The Office of the EU for the Intellectual Property has specified that, second counterfeit and usurpative study EUIPO-OCSE "Commerce of goods: a mapping of the published economic impact" to April 2016, the value of the imports of such producing in the EU reaches 85 billion euros.

The introduced relationship today follows first combined relation EUIPO-OCSE a published to April 2016 and second combined relation published in June 2017, from the title "Analysis of the true counterfeit commercial routes of the goods", containing a mapping of producing the world-wide routes of the commerce of counterfeit, in which the importance of four points of transit (Albania, Egypt, Morocco and Ukraine was evidenced) used in order to introduce forges in the European Union.

"With our relations - the executive director of the EUIPO, António Campinos - we have already evidenced that the international commerce of producing counterfeit and who usurped to you has commented constitutes until 2.5% of that world-wide one, succeeding in to total 338 billion euros. The relation today is an ulterior step ahead within such analysis. We hope that the results help to governments and responsibles of the engaged policies to estimate and to check the economic damage caused world-wise from counterfeiting and piracy".