Fake Trade, The
Synopsis
This series tells the story of how counterfeiting has become the fastest rising crime of our times. A generation ago the world’s most famous brands outsourced to the East in order to take advantage of cheap labour. Now it’s payback time as everything from toothpaste to toys, golf clubs to car parts, mobile phones to medicines and even food are being faked in industrial quantities and exported back to the first world, masquerading as the real thing.
These films take us on a journey through London and LA to Southern China, the heart of global counterfeiting; Nigeria, a country where until recently over 40% of the drugs in circulation were fake; and Thailand, one of the world’s main distribution points for world counterfeits, to meet the fakers and the men and women who are risking their lives to take them on. In the modern world anything can be copied. Welcome to the fakers’ century.
This series tells the story of how counterfeiting has become the fastest rising crime of our times. A generation ago the world’s most famous brands outsourced to the East in order to take advantage of cheap labour. Now it’s payback time as everything from toothpaste to toys, golf clubs to car parts, mobile phones to medicines and even food are being faked in industrial quantities and exported back to the first world, masquerading as the real thing.
These films take us on a journey through London and LA to Southern China, the heart of global counterfeiting; Nigeria, a country where until recently over 40% of the drugs in circulation were fake; and Thailand, one of the world’s main distribution points for world counterfeits, to meet the fakers and the men and women who are risking their lives to take them on. In the modern world anything can be copied. Welcome to the fakers’ century.
Duration
2 x 50'
Definition
SD
Genre
Factual
Subgenre
Current Affairs
Producer
BLAST! FILMS LTD