Home Textiles Today - November 28, 2005

New York —More than 20 years ago, the U.S. Customs warehouse in Long Beach, Calif., was piled high with counterfeit goods — mostly consumer electronics and Levis jeans, at the time — that had been interdicted at nearby ports of entry. Officials then admitted they represented only a small percentage of the phony goods that made it through undetected.

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