Vietnam Touts IP Crackdown Results After US Launches New Probe

Vietnam’s government touted the results of a sweeping crackdown on intellectual property violations after the US launched a fresh trade investigation, even as counterfeit items remain easily accessible across the country’s street markets.

More than 1,400 intellectual property infringement cases have been handled in the last three weeks, while criminal proceedings have been launched in 28 cases, according to a statement on the government website. The market surveillance team processed 210% more cases than in May last year, it said.

A stall selling largely counterfeit goods in Saigon Square market in Ho Chi Minh City.

Photographer: Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen/Bloomberg

On Friday, the US Trade Representative announced a Section 301 probe into whether Vietnam’s “persistent failure to resolve ...