From: Lexology
The Market Surveillance Agency (MSA) of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, one of the bodies enforcing intellectual property and compliance laws in Vietnamese market, has been very active in the course of 2016. Since the beginning of this year it has made nearly 150,000 inspections and found evidence of up to 88,000 violations, most of which are mislabeling, selling expired products, selling counterfeits and smuggled products (mostly unauthorized pesticides and cigarettes).
These numbers show not only activity of the MSA, but also attest the increase of illicit trade on the market, including counterfeited goods. To that end, the MSA has announced its intention to enhance coordination with other law enforcement authorities as well as the implementation of awareness-raising programs in order to fight the ever growing counterfeiting and smuggling business. One of the measures planned is increasing manpower before of the end of the year.
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