What Is a False Market?

Deceptive market transaction behavior refers to an operator's use of counterfeiting, imitation, and other false means to engage in market transactions and seek illegal interests, including the operator's improper use of other people's business reputation and product reputation, resulting in the products they manage and others' Confusion, the operator conceals the truth or fiction, causing consumers and users to misidentify, purchase, etc. the quality, performance, composition, use, etc. of their products.

Deceptive market transactions

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Deceptive market transactions refer to behaviors in which an operator uses counterfeiting, imitation, and other false methods to engage in market transactions and seek illegal benefits, including the operator's improper use of other people's business reputation and product reputation to cause it to operate.

Operators do not strive for trading opportunities with more favorable quality, prices, services or other conditions in market activities, but use the above-mentioned improper means to obtain a favorable competitive position, which not only harms the interests of honest operators, but also damages The interests of consumers are strictly prohibited by the Anti-Unfair Competition Law. According to Article 5 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, the unfair means that operators must not use in market transactions include the following four types of situations: ^[2]

Deceptive trading behavior is a very typical and traditional unfair competition behavior, which has the following characteristics: ^[3]

Deceptive market transactions. Not only disrupted the economic order. Seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and legitimate operators. Obstructed the process of establishing a market economic system. It is mainly manifested in the following five aspects: ^[4]

1. A market environment that directly interferes with fair trade. Deceptive market transactions undermine the fairness of competition. It is not conducive to the healthy development of production and operation, and hinders scientific and technological progress and productivity development.

2. Violates the legitimate rights and interests of legitimate operators or competitors. Counterfeiting registered trademarks, names, and packaging of others often causes severe economic losses to the right holders, defamates competitors' business reputation, product reputation, and hinders the normal activities of business opponents.

3. It has harmed the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. The counterfeit and inferior goods cause the consumers to suffer economic loss, while the serious ones cause physical and mental harm to consumers. Such as the consumption of counterfeit alcohol, food, beverages, etc., poisoning incidents often occur.

4. Affecting the investment environment and hindering reform and opening up. Trademarks, packaging and decoration of goods registered in accordance with the law are intangible assets of the enterprise. They are protected by law. Counterfeiting of well-known foreign businessmen will bring concerns to foreign investment. Outgoing counterfeit goods will cast a shadow on the national image. For example, counterfeit and inferior commodities entering Russia through the Sino-Russian border have had a negative impact on China's commodity image.

5, to a certain extent corrupted the social atmosphere. Fuels corruption. The competition in production and operation is based on the business ethics of honesty and credit. Deceptive transactions not only harm economic activities, but also often use kickbacks and bribes in the distribution process, which destroys the party's work style and breeds corruption. Spread provides hotbeds and conditions.