C.B.P. News Release

CBP Seizes Counterfeit DVDs at California Border

(Monday, March 15, 2010)

Otay Mesa, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials today announced the seizure of a single truckload containing more than 6,300 counterfeit DVDs last month at the Otay Mesa cargo export facility.

Upon closer inspection of the DVDs, the officer suspected that they could be counterfeit, and pulled a sample for review by a CBP import specialist. There were several DVD trademarks on the movie cartons, but they appeared to be of very poor quality.

The import specialist determined that all 6,372 movies were, in fact, counterfeit and had no legal authority to include the trademarked “DVDâ€