Counterfeit Trade Is Growing Worldwide

Trade in counterfeit and pirated goods across national borders totaled at least $200 billion in 2005.

„Trade in counterfeit goods is a big problem and getting
bigger," says John Dryden, deputy director of OECD's Directorate for
Science, Technology & Industry. "It is pervasive, it involves some
pretty unsavory and ruthless characters, and it has serious implications for
health, safety, living standards, and jobs. It is also a major disincentive to invent
and innovate."

Customs officials seized more than 250 million of such
articles in 2006 compared with 75 million in 2005 and 100 million in 2004. However,
customs' reply has never been as high as in 2006 with more than 36.000
seizures, an increase of around 40% compared with 2005.

Last two years in Hungary was a big jump in valoue of seizures,
either in 2005 and in 2006 it passed HUF4 billion.