The Blaze⁠79%

EXCLUSIVE: CBP announces seizure of 200 counterfeit watches worth over $28 million ⁠83%

By Carlos Garcia⁠64%

7/17/2026, 10:30:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Halo Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 35.7% saturation with 111 hits. Analysis detected 601 faulty-reasoning hits from 311 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (3,817 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.60% of the article peer group.

U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection released exclusive details to Blaze News related to a $28 million counterfeit bust from the Port of Louisville. 
The shipment from Hong Kong was seized by CBP officers on July 9. 
It was discovered when officers pulled it for inspection on its way to Illinois. 
'Officers are trained to identify illicit shipments and work diligently for American consumers by stopping the flow of unlawful trade.' 
The shipment included 200 watches that bore suspected trademarks of the Audemars Piguet brand. 
The Centers of Excellence and Expertise of the CBP determined the watches to be inauthentic. 
They were seized for "bearing counterfeit versions of registered and recorded trademarks," according to the CBP news release. 
Last month, the CBP claimed it had seized a similar shipment at the same port of 375 counterfeit watches that were worth $54 million of the genuine products. 
It had also been shipped from Hong Kong. 
"Counterfeit goods are poor-quality products costing U.S. businesses billions of dollars a year while robbing our country of jobs and tax revenues," said Philip Onken, Louisville's port director. 
"Officers are trained to identify illicit shipments and work diligently for American consumers by stopping the flow of unlawful trade." 
The CBP reminds Americans to shop at reputable websites to avoid receiving counterfeit products. 
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U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection news release 
CBP said 70,000 men and women comprise the federal agency. 
"We enforce safe, lawful travel and trade and ensure our country's economic prosperity. 
We enhance the nation's security through innovation, intelligence, collaboration, and trust," the agency said. 
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311 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Philip Onken

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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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