Fake luxury watches, not "plastic cards"
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Louisville recently halted a shipment, manifested as plastic cards, which was arriving from Hong Kong and heading to Miami.
They found a total of 20 Rolex watches deemed to be counterfeit by CBP’s trade experts. All of the watches displayed the Swiss watch manufacturer's protected trademark. The total declared value for the box was listed as USD 100 but had the 20 watches been real the cumulative MSRP would have been worth USD 491,980.
Historically, counterfeit watches and jewellery have been one of the top seized counterfeit products by CBP, with more than a quarter of the counterfeit goods coming from Hong Kong.
Counterfeit watches and jewellery make up almost half of the total MSRP of seized goods (an average of USD 650 million over the last two years). (ah)