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Unrelated but I always found it shocking the number of street sellers peddling counterfeit designer goods in Italy, seeing as luxury goods are such a huge industry in the country. I would have assumed that, of all places, Italy would have a zero-tolerance approach to counterfeits.


They do.

You pay massive fines (3'500 EUR or so) when you're caught smuggling a fake Louis Vuitton (or whatever) handbag into the country.




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