Ukrainian customs officials seized a large shipment of counterfeit Labubu toys during a routine inspection at the Ukraine–Slovakia border.

The cases underscore the regulator’s commitment to protecting consumers from health-related misinformation and ensuring fair competition among producers and sellers.

About 400,000 counterfeit items worth around EUR 257,700 were seized, and 283 trade mark infringement cases were filed in 2024.

Counterfeit perfumes and cosmetic products valued at USD 400,000 were seized in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Poltava regions.

The counterfeit goods included clothes, footwear, accessories and toys coming from China, Hong Kong and Turkey by sea and by mail.

This initiative improves trade mark enforcement and ensures that counterfeit goods do not infiltrate the local market.

A representative from CWB office in Serbia co-organized and witnessed eight destructions of fake apparel and footwear in 2024.

The counterfeit parts were distributed across Ukraine using postal service and online stores.

The Ukrainian Antimonopoly Committee has recently fined two Ukrainian wine companies for violating the local competition legislation by using misleading bottle labels.

Ukrainian authorities have recently shut down various underground workshops used for large-scale production of counterfeit food and household chemicals.

CWB Montenegro office representatives and local customs authorities witnessed the destruction of nearly 32,500 items found to infringe the Nike®, Zara®, Dsquared2®, USPA®, Under Armor® and Hermès® trademarks.