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ARTICLE · 15 AUGUST 2016

Combating Counterfeits: The UAE Context

One would be only foolish to not take a sprint for runway luxury at a plausible price.

United Arab EmiratesConsumer Protection

Consumer industry is demanding and precisely so when it relates to high end luxury at a fraction of the retail cost. One would be only foolish to not take a sprint for runway luxury at a plausible price.  The hard sell tactics are a common site in the 'special' alleys better known for the 'best buys' of popular luxury brands. In the dictionary of lawyers, these best buys are known as counterfeit goods and no matter how lucrative it may sound- dealing in them is a punishable offence.

Three brisk warning from a lawyer in similar field could possibly be- i) the health warning- the goods may be genuinely hazardous in many instances, especially fake leather or even more? Fake medicines ii) the moral warning- counterfeit goods have indirect yet noteworthy effect on jobs of many, loss of profit for the owners iii) the third and most important- legal warning – counterfeiting goods is illegal, in most if not all jurisdictions.

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