The management of Nizhniy Tagil Customs met with the law-enforcement agencies’ representatives in the last quarter of 2011 in order to come up with a joint action plan aimed at protecting the consumer market from counterfeit goods.

It was reported that the intellectual property rights infringements disclosed by Nizhniy Tagil Customs officers were most common in the field of consumer industry (clothes and footwear) and data storage devices (DVDs), while goods bearing famous logos such as Adidas, Lacoste, Umbro, and Nike were among the most frequently pirated products.