Counterfeiting costs the global automotive parts industry $12 billion a year.
- Federal Trade Commission

Counterfeiting has gone from a local nuisance to a global threat...Phony Daimler parts, from fenders to engine blocs have grabbed 30% of the market in China, Taiwan and Korea.
- Hanns Glatz from Daimler Chrysler in “Fakes!”, Business Week, 7 February 2005 (p.48 & 49)

The problem is that the counterfeit products today have been designed to look like almost perfect replicas of the genuine product, so people don't know a counterfeit when they see one.
- Brian Duggan, a director with the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) in an article published by AutoInc, April 2007, Vol.55, no.4

 

 

Electronics Risk Assessment (ERAI) is a privately held global information services organization that monitors, investigates and reports issues that are affecting the global supply chain of electronics. ERAI is the industry leader for in-depth information on counterfeit, substandard and high-risk parts.

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) was established in 2002 and constitutes a key part of the European Union’s strategy to establish and maintain a high uniform level of civil aviation safety in Europe. The Agency has been given the power to carry out certain executive tasks related to aviation safety, such as the certification of aeronautical products and organisations involved in their design, production and maintenance. They are responsible for certification of aircraft, engines and parts to improve aviation safety, and have working agreements with China, Israel, Canada, United States, Russia and Brazil.

Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) is a part of the US Department of Transportation. Their mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. Aviation Safety is the FAA organisation responsible for the certification, production approval, and continued airworthiness of aircrafts and FAA work closely with industry to make sure that unapproved parts don’t threaten today's aviation safety. A fact-sheet on Suspected Unapproved Parts (SUP)

Imaging Supplies Coalition (ISC) is dedicated to educating, empowering and protecting consumers to combat counterfeiting and fraud in the imaging supplies industry. The ISC website includes useful information on their website on how to avoid counterfeit imaging supplies products and they hold an annual conference on international anti-fraud and counterfeiting. 

Motor and Equipment Manufacturer Association (MEMA) has exclusively represented and served manufacturers of motor vehicle components and systems for the original equipment (OE) and aftermarket segments of the light vehicle and heavy duty industries since 1904. The Brand Protection Council, created by MEMA, is set up to deal with counterfeiting, non-compliant products and Intellectual Property Rights.

 The Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association (AASA)  was created by the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) with the task of focusing on key industry issues that affect its aftermarket parts manufacturers members, counterfeiting of automotive parts being a major part of their current concern.

United Kingdom Electronics Alliance (UKEA) Anti-Counterfeiting Forum The UKEA is a consortium of ten of the leading UK trade associations representing the electronics sector, whose primary purpose is to assist and coordinate discussion on cross cutting issues across the sector and, where appropriate, coordinate action on behalf of the sector including acting as a two way communication channel between the sector and Government departments and agencies. The UKEA website provides useful information on counterfeiting in the electronics industry.

World Bearing Association (WBA) WBA is a non-profit and unincorporated industrial association to promote the common interests of the world bearing industry, such as open economic engagement, sustainable development and the protection of legal rights of companies. WBA has created an Anti-Counterfeiting Committee. This Committee within the WBA is dedicated to addressing the counterfeiting of premium brand bearings and to assisting the competent authorities in eradicating it. The WBA, and each bearing company, take action and arrange informational campaigns, such as this, to raise awareness about counterfeiting. WBA also hosts the online resource Stop Fake Bearings.

The World Semiconductor Council (WSC)  From mobile phones and car-braking systems to medical devices and satellites, semiconductors increasingly provide much of the enabling technology at the core of both professional and consumer products.The role of the WSC in general is to promote a healthy and expanding market in semiconductors so the issue of the steady increase of counterfeit semiconductors, and the negative fallout therefrom, fall within its remit. The WSC applauded the conclusions of a recent workshop of Customs Experts on semiconductor counterfeiting, click here to read more about this.