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But Lin did not matter. "He'll ask for more when there's nobody left," says Lin recently told me with confidence. A merchant in Italy an order to a shoe factory in Putian China for 3,000 pairs of white shoes Nike soccer inside. A week later, Lin, who asked me to use only his first name, has a couple of times faith led them, studied sewing and pressing, has developed its own design and oversaw the production of clones 3000 Nike. It was in early February, and the seller wanted to loan Times. They have no plans or instructions. Neither he nor Lin, plant manager, were allowed to Nike. I used to work from scratch. A month later, he sent the shoes in Italy.

Lin spent most of his shoes to make the lives of adults, but did not enter the trade in counterfeit goods five years ago. "But if someone wants to Nike, Nike will make." Putian, a sanctuary for the production of counterfeit sneakers, a lawyer based in China Intellectual Property, he said, is in southeast China's Fujian province, facing Taiwan Strait. In the mid-1990s, a new company specialized in counterfeit products, a true copy started Nike, Adidas, Puma and Reebok. To Putian, was sneakers. Counterfeiters player playing low-budget espionage, bribery of employees in establishments authorized to increase his diagram. Industries tend to concentrate in certain cities and provinces. In the late 1980s, multinational corporations from all sectors have begun to outsource production to factories in the coastal provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang. "What we do depends on the order," said Lin. It was not uncommon for models appearing on the first stores of infringement in fact true. Even the shoes were thrown into a wall of buildings, a worker in a Nike factory in Putian.

Of course, as coca growers in Bolivia and the cut of opium in Afghanistan, Lin did not have much money, and operation of the import and distribution networks. These things are often just have Putian. A vacancy announcement on the wall near the door looking for people with sewing techniques for all teams, the report does not mention that the work was illegal. The benefits are high, while the sanctions are low. This is why diversification. . Running a shoe factory in false-Lin is in the midst of millions of transnational companies who produce, distribute and sell counterfeit goods. Last year, for example, the FBI, Interpol One analyst said: "If you're trapped in a container of counterfeit sneakers, they lose their products and make a mark on your customs documents. Sneakers have arrested several people of Balkan origin in New York and New Jersey for his suspected role to import large quantities of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, oxycodone, anabolic steroids, over a million Ecstasy tablets and counterfeiting. Dean Phillips, the head of the FBI's Asian / African Criminal Enterprise Unit, described the actor as a counterfeit "smart" for criminals. But if you get caught with three kilos of cocaine fall to 4-6 years.

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