Counterfeit bearings have formed a complete black industrial chain

Bearings are known as "mechanical industry food" and are mainly used for various types of processing equipment and engineering machinery. In life, small electric fans, range hoods, large trains, ships, airplanes, etc., all use bearings. Therefore, the quality of its quality is related to equipment and personal safety. According to data from the World Bearing Association, infringement counterfeit bearings account for 60% of the Chinese bearing industry trade.

Shanghai Customs revealed on April 8 that at present, the issue of counterfeit bearings in China is very serious, and it involves almost all international famous brands, such as Swedish SKF, German FAG, Japanese NSK, and American TIMKEN. Only from the end of 2008 to the end of 2011, Shanghai Customs accumulatively filed and investigated 88 counterfeit bearing cases, and seized more than 1.19 million infringing and counterfeit bearings with a value of more than 9.7 million yuan. What is even more worrying is that the current manufacture and sale of counterfeit bearings has formed a complete black industrial chain.

Seized a batch of infringement bearing cases and reinvented the manufacture and sale of counterfeit goods. In recent years, Shanghai Customs intensified its crackdown on the basis of basic knowledge of the operating laws of the bearing industry, especially the characteristics of counterfeit bearings, through the investigation of the status quo of bearing products and industries. A number of counterfeit bearing infringements have caused heavy losses to infringing bearing exporters and producers in Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In March this year, Shanghai Customs transferred seven infringement bearing cases from companies such as Wuxi Corby to Wuxi Public Security Bureau.

At the end of 2010, a foreign trade company in Raohe was dispatched to Shanghai Customs for exporting a batch of bearings. Customs officers seized more than 4,000 counterfeit SKF bearings in containers and found that the counterfeit bearings actually came from Wuxi Kobe Bearing Hardware Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kobe"), and the company precisely in October that year due to the export counterfeit bearings are being investigated by the customs.

The case handlers were keen to correlate the two cases and dig deeper. They found that the staff who organized the export of the batch of counterfeit bearings left the company after the incident and immediately took office at another Wuxi bearing company, Wuxi Kaifengle Bearing Co., Ltd. (below Called "Kai-Fu Le"), after investigation found that the above two companies are affiliated companies and suspected of export infringement bearings. The Customs immediately monitored the above two companies.

In July 2011, Shanghai Customs seized the infringement bearing on Kobe's export declaration for the second time and found that the infringing goods were provided by Wuxi Kexinte Bearing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Kexinte”), and the company and the two companies mentioned above The company is also an affiliate company. Therefore, Shanghai Customs intensified its monitoring of the above three companies. And in the following four consecutive months to seize the efficiency of a batch of infringing goods every month, in one fell swoop seized the two batches of infringing bearings Kaifler's exports through the two Shanghai agent companies and Kobe's own exports. At present, the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau has investigated the above-mentioned three Wuxi bearing companies for criminal investigation.

In 2011, Shanghai Customs seized more than 20,000 counterfeit bearings exported by a trading company in Xiamen, and in one fell swoop dismantled the manufacturing and processing facilities in the Hangzhou area of ​​Zhejiang. In the second half of 2009, the customs also seized a case of a series of counterfeit bearing exports from a company in Shandong. Through a series of investigations and handling cases, it has effectively shaken up the bearing manufacturing fraud in Shandong and standardized the local bearing industry. According to statistics, from the second half of 2010 to the end of 2011, the number of corporate infringement cases in Shandong has dropped by two-thirds, and the proportion has fallen by nearly 24 percentage points. The effectiveness of law enforcement has become apparent.

Counterfeit bearing industry woven into a black chain Deputy Commissioner of Shanghai Customs Law Department Yao Yaojuan, who is in charge of handling multiple counterfeit bearing cases, told reporters that during the investigation of the above-mentioned cases, it was discovered that counterfeit bearing manufacturing sites were mainly concentrated in Linqing, Shandong. Henan Luoyang, Zhejiang Cixi, Foshan, Guangdong and other places. The distribution area is mainly concentrated in cities such as Liaocheng, Tianjin, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Xuzhou, Wuxi and Beijing with high-density industrial users or convenient port cities.

It is particularly worth noting that the current production and sale of counterfeit bearings have formed a very complete black industrial chain. Taking Linqing of Shandong as an example, a counterfeit bearing manufacturer can easily purchase all the production materials needed to produce counterfeit bearings: from counterfeit bearing raw materials, to counterfeit bearing production and processing tools and equipment, to counterfeit packaging materials, and to print counterfeit goods. Trademarks, printed product models and bar code labels.