Underground economies and illegal imports : business and legal strategies to address illegitimate commerce /
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| Author / Creator: | DeKieffer, Donald E. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xxi, 296 p. : forms ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8002832 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Forward
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Twilight between Gray and Black
- Chapter 2. What's Gray?
- Government Regulation
- Private Regulation
- Trademarks
- Patents
- Copyrights
- Trade Secrets
- Restrictive distribution and manufacturing agreements
- Chapter 3. Government Trade Controls
- Taxes
- Tariffs
- Trade Preferences
- Quotas
- Health & Safety
- Public Policy Controls
- Foreign Policy and national Security
- Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
- Safeguards
- Labeling
- Licensing and Agencies
- Chapter 4. Incentives for the Gray Market
- Public attitudes toward the gray market
- You market, we sell
- Better than cash
- Hedging and Currency Speculation
- Philanthropists
- Patriots and Terrorists
- See no evil
- Conglomerates
- Chapter 5. Acquiring the merchandise
- Open trading
- Classic Gray
- Contract manufacturing
- Midnight runs
- Diversion
- Faithless distributors
- Organized retail theft
- Cargo theft
- Sampling scams
- Home-made
- Reverse distributors
- Bust-outs
- Recycling
- Chapter 6. The Gray market Bazaar
- The Internet
- Flea markets
- Street sales
- Liquidation and surplus
- Dollar stores
- Mom & Pop
- Box stores
- Your neighborhood supermarket
- Diversion buyers
- Repackers
- Inventory adjustments
- Chapter 7. The invisible souk
- A problem with numbers
- Avoidance v. evasion
- Willful blindness
- Priorities
- Company softies
- Chapter 8. Strategy
- Basic Skills
- Strategy
- Chapter 9. Tactics
- Falsification of Documents
- Establishing credible deniability
- Acquiring a legitimate persona
- The setup
- the Legend
- Papering files
- Comingling
- Disguising consignees and consignors
- Disguising provenance
- Avoiding speed traps
- Prevarication without blushing
- Over and under-invoicing
- Multiple Invoicing of Goods and Services
- Over and Under-Shipment of Goods and Services
- Hiding and moving inventory
- Moving money
- Hiring protection
- Hiring sacrificial goats
- Enforcing conduct of collaborators
- Avoiding interception of communications
- Chapter 10. The special case of pharmaceuticals
- Trojan Drugs
- Diversion of charitable contributions
- Internet sales
- The Canadian connection
- Chapter 11. Where Is the Gray Market?
- International Diversion markets
- International Counterfeit Markets
- Chapter 12. Investigating the Gray Market
- Monitoring
- Returns
- Live Cases
- Chapter 13. Practical Responses to the Gray Market
- Marking
- Pricing
- Customers
- Culture
- Co-Option
- Chapter 14. Legal Responses to gray marketing
- Preparing the legal ground
- Chapter 15. Civil Actions against counterfeiters
- Interrelationships between civil and criminal proceedings
- The Fifth Amendment privilege
- Stay of proceedings
- Ex parte seizures
- Damages against counterfeiters
- Seller's liability when counterfeiting is disclosed to the buyer
- Section 337
- Chapter 16. Civil actions against diverters
- Section 337
- Fraud
- Tortious Interference with contract
- Knowledge of the Contract
- Inducement
- Chapter 17. Enforcement
- Border Enforcement
- Enforcing Court Orders
- Self-help in enforcement of court orders
- Section 337 Enforcement
