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Senator Catherine Dumas alerts French finance ministry to Chinese fake news

By Zélie de Crécy

Published on 29.05.2025 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 min

The Les Républicains senator, who regularly champions the luxury sector's cause in the French Senate, has shared the industry's concerns over a series of online posts promoting counterfeit products.

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Counterfeiters
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Though it is the leading market for Western luxury goods companies, China has consistently encouraged Chinese consumers to purchase high-end domestic brands. Having largely failed in this endeavour, Beijing is now happy to turn a blind eye to its own thriving counterfeiting industry, which boasts entire shopping centres on home soil that trade in fake goods.

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China, France
Senator Catherine Dumas alerts French finance ministry to Chinese fake news

The Les Républicains senator, who regularly champions the luxury sector's cause in the French Senate, has shared the industry's concerns over a series of online posts promoting counterfeit products.

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China, France Senator Catherine Dumas alerts French finance ministry to Chinese fake news

The Les Républicains senator, who regularly champions the luxury sector's cause in the French Senate, has shared the industry's concerns over a series of online posts promoting counterfeit products.

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Counterfeiters Xi Jinping's superfake hubs institutionalise state counterfeiting

Paris team heads to Beijing for high-level talks to halt counterfeiting

France's anti-money laundering unit homes in on luxury sector

French MPs suddenly embrace textile recycling

Front Row Catherine Dumas, the French luxury industry's Senate champion

LVMH lobbies French government on issues ranging from China to fragrances

Ermenegildo Zegna abandons its Chinese investments as tensions ramp up with Beijing

Counterfeiters register fake brands at EU intellectual property body

Tiffany's caught in crossfire of US-China trade war

The truth behind the TikTok campaign exposing luxury sector's 'Made in China' secrets

Front Row Olivia Grégoire, the French luxury sector's favourite member of parliament

China may open counterfeit floodgates in retaliation for US tariffs

Dior and Givenchy battle Chinese counterfeit platform DHGate

Cosmetics power struggle continues between Paris and Beijing

Credible fakes pose real problems for Hermès

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China, France
Senator Catherine Dumas alerts French finance ministry to Chinese fake news

Counterfeiters
Xi Jinping's superfake hubs institutionalise state counterfeiting

Front Row
Catherine Dumas, the French luxury industry's Senate champion

Front Row
Olivia Grégoire, the French luxury sector's favourite member of parliament