There is a big problem with counterfeit and gray market goods coming from China and other developing countries. When a company goes to China (for instance) to subcontract for computer carrying bags (for example), they have to give their local plant everything needed for the contract. Drawings, materials specifications, production jigs and process steps, etc. The first company wants to get their product to market first, and probably sets short timelines. What plant operator wants his workers very busy for a short time? Once the contract has been fulfilled, what actual controls are there on the subcontractor from running off another batch with another label? Or from selling the production trade secrets to the guy across town? When the product becomes a commodity, the pressure to cut corners are often irresistable. And then we see stories on the news of shipping containers full of purses, shoes, jeans, perfume, electronics, prescription drugs, etc being seized by the feds.
