Action Plan against fake products made in China

The EU remains China's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade hitting 356.15 billion U.S. dollars last year, up 27 percent year-on-year.

The visiting EU Commissioner responsible for
taxation and customs, Laszio Kovacs, said a concrete Action Plan on
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) will be worked out between China
and the European Union (EU). Kovacs said that both sides agreed on
the strategic partnership between China and the EU in the third
meeting and began to discuss details of the Action Plan. IPR
protection is a major issue for EU businesses, for which counterfeit
and pirated products pose a serious challenge. He also discussed with
the Chinese side the issue of strengthening the security of the
supply chain and facilitating trade for reliable traders.

On Nov. 19, 2007, the customs administrations of the United
Kingdom, the Netherlands and China exchanged for the first time
electronic information on sea containers leaving their territory
through the ports of Rotterdam, Felixstowe and Shenzhen. Kovacs said
that China and the EU intended to expand the pilot ports from the
current three to include Hong Kong and the ports of more EU members.