Imitation Nation

This White House has made big changes to De Minimis: For a look at the scale of packages, check out this CBS News piece. We cover the impact on counterfeit medicines, especially fake fentanyl pills, and techniques that companies might start to use to circumvent tariff uncertainty.

The Trump trademark owners have complained about ecommerce platforms selling counterfeit versions of Trump-branded products and filed litigation.

We also talk about a machine that makes counterfeit pills, the pill press, and a recent report the Partnership for Safe Medicines published about illegal pill presses.

And there’s a lot of shout out stories this week we don’t have time to go into fully:

• Counterfeit Labubu toys

• $3.5mm seized in Port of Cincinnatti

• Fentanyl analogues finally got scheduled after 6 years of work

• Brandy Melville sues Temu after suing Shein

• Really good looking fake $100’s

• Amazon’s counterfeit crimes unit is claiming they’ve secured $180mm in penalties and 65 criminal convictions.