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What are the penalties for counterfeit products?

Legal analysis: Counterfeit and shoddy products are suspected of constituting the crime of producing and selling fake and shoddy products, and should be sentenced accordingly. The sentencing standard is: If the sales amount is more than 50,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount. The penalties for counterfeiting registered trademark products are: if it constitutes the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks, it is generally sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, and either a fine or a fine; if it constitutes the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, it is generally also sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years. , and shall be fined or solely fined. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine stipulates that counterfeit and shoddy products mainly fall into the following situations:

(1) Forging or using quality marks and license marks such as certification marks, famous brand product marks, inspection exemption marks, etc. (2) Forging or using a false place of origin (3) Forging or using someone else's factory name or address (4) Counterfeiting someone else's registered trademark (5) Adultering, adulterating, passing off fake as genuine, or passing off inferior quality (6) ) Failure or deterioration (7) There is an unreasonable risk endangering human health and personal and property safety

(8) The indicated indicators are inconsistent with the actual situation (9) It is expressly prohibited by relevant national laws and regulations Production and sales.

Legal basis: Article 140 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China: Producers and sellers adulterate or adulterate their products, pass off fake products as genuine products, pass off substandard products as good products, or pass off products as good products. Anyone who passes off a substandard product as a qualified product and has a sales amount of more than 50,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount; If the sales amount is more than 100,000 yuan but less than 500,000 yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than seven years, and shall be fined not less than 50% but not more than two times of the sales amount; if the sales amount is more than 500,000 yuan but less than 2 million yuan, The person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years and a fine of not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount; if the sales amount exceeds two million yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 15 years or life imprisonment and shall also be fined 50% of the sales amount. A fine of not less than twice but not more than twice the amount or confiscation of property.