U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last month seized over 39,000 fake designer products from China at a port in Los Angeles. The fake designer goods arrived in two cargo shipments, with the first intercepted on July 19 and a second one on July 30 at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port. The counterfeit products included sandals, handbags, sneakers, hats, wallets, backpacks, mobile phone cases, to belts, bearing numerous logos such as Gucci, Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Prada, according to CBP’s news release on Aug. 26. If genuine, the seized merchandise would have had a combined retail price of about $53.7 million, the CBP said. “Counterfeit goods unfairly compete with legitimate products and reduce the incentives to innovate, both in the United States and abroad,” said Donald R. Kusser, port director of the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport, according to the release. The rise of e-commerce has facilitated an uptick in …