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‘80 percent of fake goods that enter EU come from China’

Trade in counterfeit goods is booming in the European Union and about 80 percent of fake goods that enter its market are from China, the EU Commission president has said. Addressing the Global Anti-Counterfeit Summit in Brussels Monday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said that EU customs officials seized more than 128 million counterfeit and pirated goods in 2006, up 70 percent from 2005, EuAsiaNews reported. Some 80 percent of the counterfeit goods intercepted while en route to the EU, were made in China, he stressed. “Unless we successfully engage China, then everything else we do is a mere side-show,” Barroso told the conference in his keynote address as head of the EU’s executive arm, which shares responsibility with the EU countries for keeping counterfeit and pirated goods out of the bloc.