Japan: $12.3 million
United States: $7.5 million
Hong Kong: $2.2 million
South Korea: $1.1 million
Mexico City: $365,000
UK: 16.3% . . .
Brazil: 22.7% . . .
Bolivia: 42.5% . . .
Indonesia: 50.6% . . .
Albania: 69.2% . . . 
Netherlands: $36 . . .
Spain: $26 . . . 
Serbia: $119 . . .
Turkey: $220 . . .
Australia: $241 . . .
Germany: $266 . . .
Portugal: $320 . . .
Greece: $718 . . . 
France:1.5% ($333) . . .
Luxembourg: 2.4% ($820) . . .
Russia: 3.5% ($280) . . .
Shoes, according to counterfeit seizure statistics from American customs. But maybe this just means it’s easier to detect counterfeit Nike’s than, say, fake Hublots.
Customs and Border Protection says 79% of counterfeit goods seized at the border came from China and another 10% from Hong Kong. A question comes to mind: what’s the difference between a genuine Nike shoe, assembled at some sweatshop in Shenzen, and a counterfeit Nike shoe… assembled at some sweatshop in Shenzen (presumably not the same one.)?
I’ve often asked this question myself, to no-one in particular. Thanks for putting it out there.
The answer lies in all the missing middle-men and their missed income opportunity. Government can’t tax them for what they didn’t earn, nor can it tax the non-resident dealers who don’t appear on IR department’s lists.
first, sometimes it is the same factory making the knockoffs.
i’ve also often asked myself this question. Have you read “Gomorrah” by Roberto Saviano? It goes into some of this (the book is actually about the Camora, the mafia based out of Naples, but there is much about the counterfeit and semi-counterfeit goods market)