Trade in Counterfeit Products and the UK Economy
Fake Goods, Real Losses
The modern structure of the UK economy is largely based on knowledge, ideas and innovation
and its well integrated global value chains. These factors help boost the country’s
economic growth, but at the same time they make it highly susceptible to the risk
of trade in counterfeit goods. This risk negatively affects UK rights holders, the
UK government, and the reputation of UK firms. This report measures the direct, economic
effects of counterfeiting on consumers, retail and manufacturing industry and governments
in the United Kingdom. It does so from two perspectives: the impact on these three
groups of imports of fake products into the UK, and the impact of the global trade
in fake products on UK intellectual property rights holders.
Published on September 04, 2017
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