Declaring war on crimes of production, circulation and trading of counterfeit goods

On the afternoon of June 23, comrades: Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Prime Minister; Bui Thanh Son, Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the National Steering Committee 389 chaired a national online conference to review the work in the first 6 months of 2025 and summarize the peak period of fighting, preventing and repelling smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, and infringement of intellectual property rights.

Comrades Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Quang Hung, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended the conference at Thai Binh bridge.

Attending the conference at Thai Binh bridge were comrades: Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Provincial Anti-Smuggling, Trade Fraud and Counterfeit Goods Working Group (Working Group); Nguyen Quang Hung, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Provincial Steering Committee 389, Deputy Head of the Working Group; members of the Working Group, leaders of relevant departments and branches.

Provincial leaders; leaders of departments, branches and sectors attended the conference at Thai Binh bridge.

In the first 6 months of 2025, the functional forces actively and proactively carried out professional measures, promptly detected, fought, prevented, arrested and strictly handled violations of the law related to smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, and infringement of intellectual property rights under their authority, contributing to stabilizing the market and protecting the rights and interests of businesses and consumers. The exchange and sharing of information and coordination in the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods between the Steering Committee 389 of ministries, branches, provinces and cities achieved high efficiency, many major violations were promptly detected, arrested and handled; information and propaganda work against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods on the media was widely spread to many fields, localities and subjects. However, the activities of buying, selling, transporting prohibited goods, smuggling, illegal transportation of goods, trade fraud and counterfeit goods across borders, border gates, land, trails, border openings, sea borders, seaports, sea areas, airways, and key inland areas are still complicated. Units and localities have arrested and handled over 50,700 violations, collected over 6,500 billion VND to the state budget, and prosecuted 1,875 cases with 3,235 subjects.

Summing up the peak period of the fight to prevent and repel smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, and infringement of intellectual property rights (from May 15, 2025 to June 15, 2025), the whole country has arrested and handled 10,437 cases of smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods (an increase of more than 80% compared to May). Of which, there were 1,936 cases of trading and transporting prohibited and smuggled goods; 6,870 cases of trade fraud, tax fraud; 1,631 cases of counterfeit goods, infringement of intellectual property rights. Thereby, the state budget collected 1,279 billion VND, temporarily seized goods and exhibits worth an estimated more than 4,075 billion VND, and prosecuted 204 cases with 378 defendants.

Conference points of provinces and cities.

At the conference, delegates from ministries, branches and localities discussed and analyzed existing problems, limitations, causes and lessons, thereby proposing solutions to improve the effectiveness of the fight against smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods and goods infringing intellectual property rights in the coming time.

Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministries, branches and localities to strengthen direction, urging, mobilizing the active participation, coordination and close support of functional forces; mobilizing the combined strength and participation of all classes of people in the fight, prevention, repelling and eventually eliminating smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods. He requested all levels, branches and localities to tighten state management in this field, demonstrating the spirit of determination to declare war and not tolerating all types of crimes of manufacturing, circulating and trading counterfeit goods, especially counterfeit medicines, counterfeit functional foods and counterfeit foods. At the same time, launching a movement for each citizen to be a soldier on the front line against counterfeit goods and to become smart, wise consumers, proactively protecting the rights and health of themselves and their families.

Quynh Luu

Photo: Trinh Cuong

Source: https://baothaibinh.com.vn/tin-tuc/4/226714/tuyen-chien-vo-i-to-i-pha-m-sa-n-xua-t-luu-ha-nh-kinh-doanh-ha-ng-gia