New York–A total of 141,112 UNO card games, 9,600 LOL Surprise! Under Wraps balls, and 1,980 LOL Surprise! Under Wraps capsule toys were seized. If authentic, these toys would have a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of approximately $1,300,000.
These toys were definitely not the “real ones,” as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of New York/Newark recently discovered.
CBP officers inspected the shipment in late November after it arrived from China. Officers then submitted digital images of the toys to CBP’s Consumer Products and Mass Merchandising Center for Excellence and Expertise (CEE), the agency’s trade experts. CBP’s CEE specialists worked with the trademark holders and determined the toys to be counterfeit.
CBP completed the seizure on December 9. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in Newark, NJ, continue to investigate.
The manufacture and sale of counterfeit goods rob legitimate businesses of revenue, deprive American workers of jobs, and pose health and safety threats to U.S. consumers. Oftentimes, the proceeds from counterfeit merchandise sales support other nefarious and illicit businesses.
On a typical day in 2019, CBP officers seized $4.3 million worth of products with IPR violations.
