{"id":9768,"date":"2024-06-18T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2024-06-18T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T20:05:52","slug":"global-wco-operation-results-in-seizures-of-45-million-illicit-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/global-wco-operation-results-in-seizures-of-45-million-illicit-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Global WCO operation results in seizures of 45 million illicit items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Customs Organization (WCO) has been conducting operations under the codename &#8220;STOP&#8221; since 2020 to counter the increasing sophistication and adaptability of illicit trade networks, which are presenting new global challenges in the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most recent, Operation STOP III conducted from December 4 to 15, 2023 focused on intercepting and seizing fake or substandard medicines, medical devices, vaccines as well as any other products for everyday consumption, sold via e-commerce, that might infringe IPR, in particular, consumer products affecting citizens&#8217; health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>STOP III saw the participation of 111 Customs administrations and international partners such as INTERPOL, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).<\/p>\n<p>Results of the operation included the reporting of 894 cases by 48 Customs administrations with 634 cases (71%) specifically related to e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p>The Operation resulted in the seizure of 45 million items, including 43.5 million illicit medicines and medical devices, and 1.1 million goods infringing intellectual property rights (IPR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Customs Organization (WCO) has been conducting operations under the codename &#8220;STOP&#8221; since 2020 to counter the increasing sophistication and adaptability of illicit trade networks, which are presenting new global challenges in the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":9766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[858,550],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-custom-brokerage","tag-wco","tag-world-customs-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}