China Once Again Tops US ‘Notorious Markets’ List for Counterfeiting, Piracy

ByteDance’s platform was added while Tencent’s WeChat was dropped from the ‘Notorious Markets’ list.

A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance's app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, China, on Oct. 18, 2019. STR/Files/Reuters

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its “2024 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy” in recent days, with the Chinese market remaining at the top of the list. Analysts said that its intellectual property infringement is deeply rooted and unlikely to change.

China is once again “the number one source of counterfeit products in the world,” the report stated.