41 percent of seizures in FY2006 were counterfeit shoes
Counterfeit shoes accounted for 41 percent of all seizures made in Fiscal Year 2006 by United States Immigration and Custom Agents.
Source: “Counterfeit goods seizures up 83% in FY 2006: DHS made 14,675 seizures, worth more than $155 million,” U.S.Immigration and Custom Enforcement, January 11, 2007.
Demand for trafficked organs
The Economist, “In America, the average waiting time for a kidney is now five years, up from less than a year in the 1980s. In Britain, there are around 6,000 people who need a transplant - and less than 2,000 such operation take place each year.”
Source: ” Organ Transplants: Your part or mine?,” The Economist, [...]
Biggest consumers of illegally traded organs are Americans and Japanese
According to Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes of Organs Watch,the biggest consumers of illegally traded organs are the Americans and the Japanese.
Source: Leslie Ferenc, “‘Living Cadavers” forced by poverty to sell organs,” Toronto Star, February 4, 2008, (accessed: February 5, 2008).
Los Angeles loses $2.7 billion to piracy
Source: Richard Verrier, ” Piracy robs L.A. economy, study says,” Los Angeles Times, February 16, 2007.
New York City loses $1.5 billion to piracy
Source: Associated Press, ” NYC Makes Film Piracy a Misdemeanor,” Houston Chronicle, May 1, 2007.
30 percent of Zippo’s market affected by counterfeits
Source: ssociated Press, “Zippo to lay off 15 percent of workers, knockoffs partly to blame,” International Herald Tribune, September 28, 2006,(accessed: February 15, 2007).
Counterfeit Lighters cause Zippo to lose 150 jobs
Source: Associated Press, “Zippo to lay off 15 percent of workers, knockoffs partly to blame,” International Herald Tribune, September 28, 2006,(accessed: February 15, 2007).
US Companies lose $460 million each year to illegal logging
Companies in the United States lose at least $460 million each year as world prices are depressed between 7 -16 percent by the availability of illegal logging products.
Source: Duncan Brack, “Illegal Logging: Briefing Paper, August 2006, Chatham House: Energy Environment and Development Programme,(accessed: December 15, 2007).
108 percent increase in illegal fishing activites in the US
In the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opened 750 investigations into illegal fishing activities during the 2006 fiscal year in the Northeast region alone, an increase of 108 percent from 5 years ago.
Source: Associated Press, ” Federal agents try to staunch tidal wave of illegal seafood,” International Herald Tribune, April 28, 2007.
US Department of State in 2006: 600,000 to 800,000 trafficked each year
Source: U.S. Department of State, “Trafficking in Persons Report, 2006,” June 2006,(last accessed: August 21, 2006).
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