Eight Hundred Thousand Fake Goods And Spare Parts Introduced Into Algerian Market Annually

Experts on counterfeiting and fraud revealed on Wednesday that 800,000 fake products have been illegally introduced annually into the Algerian market, a huge figure indeed, while the most important imported goods in line with tradition were counterfeit automobile spare parts with the supplier country being China.
Importers have to undergo more than 2,000 measuring devices including counters and scales, installed at the level of Algerian airports and ports, to facilitate the passage of counterfeit goods.
The head of the technical department of the National Institute for measurement, Ms Nabila Yazid, during the fourth international days of the mark and tradition, said yesterday at the El Aurassi Hotel in upper Algiers, that the Algerian airports and ports do not have sufficient equipment to measure quality as part of efforts to ensure the suppression of fraud through stringent surveillance and detection of certain fake and counterfeit goods imported by some ill-advised and venal operators.
The spokeswoman added that a number of importers tried to introduce in Algeria more than 2070 measuring devices in the course of the year 2017, but the customs departments were able to thwart their scheme through the analysis of samples at the level of the Institute of measurement, knowing that this equipment is often installed at the level of airports and ports, in a bid to monitor the goods entering the Algerian market.
She attributed the responsibility for the high rate of fraud in this area to some law-breaking importers who do not waver to dump the national market with low-down products of this kind.
In the same context, 1.6 million measuring devices were imported during the past year, while 0.17 percent were found to be either counterfeit or faulty, as customs agents, are working in full swing to head off the introduction of suspicious goods into the Algerian market, she further underlined.