{"id":3143,"date":"2004-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/novo-site\/en\/border-control-of-intellectual-property-rights-brazil\/"},"modified":"2004-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-01T02:00:00","slug":"border-control-of-intellectual-property-rights-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/border-control-of-intellectual-property-rights-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Control of Intellectual Property Rights &#8211; Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">1. Introduction to National Customs Jurisdiction [Description of the legal<br \/>\nbasis for Customs administration and organisational relationship with<br \/>\nIP administration, impact of TRIPS agreement, if any]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">During the period of military government, which spanned from 1964 until 1984,<br \/>\nBrazil went through a policy of substitution of importation. This policy aimed at<br \/>\nencouraging the growth of the Brazilian industry but the actual results were<br \/>\nactually the overprotection of the national companies, which limited competition<br \/>\nthus making the prices to the final consumer a matter of unilateral decision by<br \/>\nthe company offering the products and services and the thriving of the<br \/>\ncounterfeiting market.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Without the presence of foreign goods, millions of Brazilians specialised in the<br \/>\nimportation of counterfeited goods from Asia and the population became used<br \/>\nto finding such goods in the regular market.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The lack of control of the Brazilian borders was another very relevant factor<br \/>\nwhich allowed the importation of such goods. Brazil has borders with ten other<br \/>\nLatin American countries, totalling a perimeter of 16,886 Km to administer. This<br \/>\nunique situation, made Brazil become one of the largest importers of<br \/>\ncounterfeited goods.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">With the end of the military era, Brazil began a very fast but very disorganised<br \/>\ndevelopments process. The opening of the country, which was thirsty for foreign<br \/>\ngoods, to the international market created a sudden growth in the importations,<br \/>\nwithout the corresponding growth in the control of the borders. The<br \/>\ncounterfeiting continued but as of 1984, the strong entrance of foreign<br \/>\ncompanies in the Brazilian market made the government stir a little for a reform<br \/>\nand adaptation of the country to the international regulations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">In the first years after 1984, Brazil also went through several economic crisis<br \/>\nwhich contributed to the growth of the informal market, which took advantage of<br \/>\nthe very cheap counterfeited products coming from abroad.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #505050\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Full <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/dsbim\/uploads\/imgFCKUpload\/file\/AJG_JHW_Border_Control_of_IP_Rights.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Introduction to National Customs Jurisdiction [Description of the legal basis for Customs administration and organisational relationship with IP administration, impact of TRIPS agreement, if any] During the period of military government, which spanned from 1964 until 1984, Brazil went through a policy of substitution of importation. This policy aimed at encouraging the growth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[134],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ids.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}