More than 3,000 pieces of counterfeit jewelry was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers Monday night.
The two shipments contained a total of 3,301 pieces of counterfeit designer rings, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. The items were deemed inauthentic by CBP’s Center of Expertise.
If the items were authentic, they would have had a retail value of over $9.58 million.
According to Customs and Border Protection, the first shipment arrived from Hong Kong and included 92 bracelets displaying the logos of Gucci, Tory Burch, Hermes, Tiffany, Bvlgari, Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, and Louis Vuitton; 24 necklaces bearing the logos of Van Cleef and Arpels and Louis Vuitton; 23 rings displaying the logos of Van Cleef and Arpels and Gucci; and 18 pairs of earrings bearing Van Cleef and Arpels logos.
The second shipment also arrived from Hong Kong and included 600 bracelets displaying the logo of Cartier and 2,544 pairs of earrings bearing the logo of Prada.
The shipment was heading to a home in Huntington Beach, California.
Customs and Border Protection seized over 23 million shipments of intellectual property rights violations in Fiscal Year 2023, which would have been worth nearly $2.4 billion had the goods been authentic.
Source: WHAS11
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