{"id":4927,"date":"2024-10-07T12:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:30:50","slug":"zimbabwe-launches-crackdown-on-counterfeits-and-smuggled-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Launches Crackdown on Counterfeits and Smuggled Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Business Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Industry and Commerce Mangaliso Ndlovu announced a nationwide blitz against counterfeit and smuggled goods to protect consumers and facilitate Zimbabwe&#8217;s integration into the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want to make sure\u2026we protect consumers from any potential source of violations,&#8221; Ndlovu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have declared war on counterfeit products and capacitated our institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative aligns with World Standards Day&#8217;s theme, &#8220;Shared vision for a better world,&#8221; emphasizing collaboration and standards for progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Standards are the backbone of our industry\u2026especially now as we create a single and unified market under AfCFTA,&#8221; Ndlovu added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Organisation for Standardisation Secretary General Sergio Mujica echoed the importance of standards for economic and social development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Correspondent Minister of Industry and Commerce Mangaliso Ndlovu announced a nationwide blitz against counterfeit and smuggled goods to protect consumers and facilitate Zimbabwe&#8217;s integration into the Africa Continental Free&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}