00760nam a22001337a 4500 OECD and EUIPO Global Trade in Fake Goods Worth Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars a Year: France OECD and the EU’s Intellectual Property Office. 2016 4p. The article reports on the scourge of Imports of counterfeit and pirated goods approximated to be worth nearly half a trillion dollars a year, or around 2.5% of global imports, with US, Italian and French brands the hardest hit and many of the proceeds going to organised crime. Counterfeit Goods, Illicit Trade iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/Global trade in fake goods worth nearly half a trillion dollars a year.pdf NA 601 601