Nearly half of the confiscated counterfeit cigarettes entering the European Union last year came from Cambodia, making it the bloc’s main source of fake smokes, ahead of Georgia and China, the European Commission said in a new report.
A government anti-counterfeit committee and the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia on Thursday pledged to join forces to fight the illicit flow of fake goods in the country, part of the region’s multibillion-dollar counterfeit goods market.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has issued a blunt warning that he will not longer attend ceremonies to burn counterfeit goods if no one is arrested over those goods.
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