Federal anticounterfeiting regs required by January 1997 under recently enacted law.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FEDERAL ANTICOUNTERFEITING REGS TO BE DEVELOPED BY JANUARY 1997 by the Treasury Department, under the "Anticounterfeiting Protection Act of 1996," signed into law by President Clinton July 2. The act directs the Secretary of the Treasury to "prescribe such regulations or amendments to existing regulations" no later than six months after the enactment of the measure, the document states. The law makes selling counterfeit goods a crime under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).