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· Korea - North
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Jump to full article: The China Post (tw), 2007-12-11
Intro: Most of the 6.1 million packs of smuggled cigarettes seized in Taiwan as of Nov. 18 and worth about NT$336 million (US$10.4 million) are fake Japanese brands, according to statistics released Monday by the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
The figures were unveiled after a report published a day earlier in Japan's Sankei Shimbun that in order to gain foreign currency reserves, North Korea has 10 factories manufacturing counterfeit Japanese cigarettes and is smuggling them into Taiwan.
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