Overview

• U.S. consumer-safety regulators said last week they ordered thousands of counterfeit units seized at ports and warned the fakes violate small‑parts rules and pose a serious choking risk.
• The U.K.’s Chartered Trading Standards Institute issued an urgent warning this month, reporting store seizures in England and Scotland and probing possible links to organized crime.
• Chinese customs reported confiscating more than 200,000 fake Labubu products in June and said seizures have continued on a near‑daily basis since then.
• Pop Mart’s Singapore subsidiary filed a U.S. federal lawsuit in California last month accusing 7‑Eleven locations of intellectual‑property violations and seeking damages and a halt to sales.
• Consumer complaints have climbed, with the Better Business Bureau’s tracker logging more than 100 entries, as the blind‑box model and social‑media virality help counterfeiters flood the market.