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What happens if you are caught selling branded products?
Selling brand-name products, if the circumstances are serious and constitute a crime, shall be treated as the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks. According to the provisions of the Criminal Law, anyone who knowingly sells goods that are counterfeit registered trademarks, and the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also or only be fined.

legal ground

Article 2 14 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Whoever knowingly sells goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, and the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also or only be fined; If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined.