On April 23, 2025, China’s General Administration of Customs released Status of Intellectual Property Protection in China Customs in 2024 (2024年中国海关知识产权保护状况) providing statistics on the detainment of good (both import and export) for infringing intellectual property rights. A total of 53,200 intellectual property protection measures were implemented throughout 2024, and 41,600 batches and 81,605,100 items of suspected infringing goods were actually detained, representing a plateau in growth.
Other data points include:
- a total of 29,541 intellectual property customs protection filing applications were accepted throughout the year, and the total number of filing applications accepted for the first time was close to 30,000. 21,614 filing applications were reviewed and approved, of which 16,034 were filed by domestic right holders, an increase of 24.19% year-on-year.
- Customs detained 41,300 batches and 76,390,100 pieces of goods suspected of infringing trademark rights, accounting for 99.5% and 93.57% of the batches and quantities of suspected infringing goods, respectively.
- a total of 249,000 pieces and 4,995,900 pieces of goods suspected of infringing patent rights and copyrights were detained, an increase of 71.33% and 393.61% year-on-year, respectively.
- Customs detained 41,200 batches and 80,333,700 pieces of suspected infringing goods at the export stage, accounting for 99.17% and 98.41% of all detained batches and pieces respectively; 345 batches and 1,301,500 pieces of suspected infringing goods were detained at the import stage, down 34.16% and 26.52% year-on-year respectively.
- clothing, shoes and hats, electronic appliances, leather goods and bags still occupy the top three batches detained, with 21,600 batches, 5,500 batches and 4,800 batches respectively. In terms of detained quantity, electronic appliances, sports equipment, tobacco products and other goods occupy the top three, with 27.9661 million pieces, 11.0748 million pieces and 4.4631 million pieces respectively.
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