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"China Steals Nukes, and Counterfeits American Crafts!"
1999-07-25 until 1999-07-25
Made in the USA Foundation: American Crafts Project
Washington, DC, USA United States of America

Target Stores are selling counterfeit American Crafts, charged the Made in the USA Foundation in a complaint filed with the International Trade Commission March 26, 1999. According to the craft artist, T. M. Hoff of New Paltz, New York, Target Stores ordered one of his pottery lanterns a few years ago and sent it to China to have cheap copies reproduced.

The Made in the USA Foundation has joined T.M. Hoff Handmade in filing the complaint with the International Trade Commission. Joel D. Joseph, chairman of the Foundation said, We have let China walk all over us. China steals our nuclear weapons and missile technology and illegally copies our intellectual property. From movies and music to software and even craftwork, China has no respect for our copyrights, trademarks and patents. According to Hoff, Dayton Hudson (parent of Target) ordered samples for product evaluation in 1996. Two years later, cheap Chinese copies began appearing in Target Stores across the United States. Mr. Hoff added: An organization as large as Dayton Hudson should pay a product designer for the goods they sell. In our case it copied the design of our most important product and offered us nothing in return. We are a four-person studio business operating out of our home. I guess they thought we were too small to fight back. The complaint seeks to have the counterfeit goods seized and destroyed. T.M. Hoff and the Made in the USA Foundation also seek to prohibit the importation of these counterfeit lanterns. The Foundation working with the Rosen Group, Inc and AmericanStyle Magazine has established the American Crafts Project to assist craft artists when their works are copied overseas. For more information call: Joel D. Joseph Wendy Rosen American Crafts Project AmericanStyle Magazine 202.822.0197 410.889.3093 Made in the USA Foundation American Crafts Project 1828 L Street NW #1000 Washington, DC 20036 Fax: 202.822.6062


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