'Class A of its own': San Juan City mall on US list of notorious markets for knockoffs

In this March 2020 handout photo, a sanitation crew conducts a disinfection operation at Greenhills Shopping Center in San Juan.

Handout photo, Greenhills Center, file

MANILA, Philippines — Greenhills Shopping Center, a mall in San Juan, is still among the world's 35 physical markets known for counterfeiting and piracy, according to a new report by the US Trade Representative (USTR). 

"Many of the storefronts in this mall sell counterfeit goods, including electronics, perfumes, watches, shoes, accessories, and fashion items," USTR said in its "2021 Notorious Markets List."

"Although the Philippines government established an enforcement and monitoring agreement with the city of San Juan and created a working group composed of various agencies from the National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), sellers of counterfeit goods are reportedly becoming bolder in displaying and openly discussing the illicit nature of the counterfeit goods, instead of discreetly hiding the counterfeit goods under the tables as they did in the past." it added. 

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