Mock Interview : The Widespread Marketing of Imitation Products at International Level is Affecting The Global Society.

The Widespread Marketing of Imitation Products at International Level is Affecting The Global Society

Concept : the growth of imitation products at the international market is causing effects to the global society.

Points :

1)      Economically, the widespread of imitation products at international level affects companies of which the product is from. Companies now lose customers and market as a result of the presence of cheaper products which looks exactly the same as the original product. Hand phone, clothing, and electrical companies will now experience a drop in their income. So some companies might lose an amount of money while others might even be declared bankrupt. One of the main examples in the 20^th century would be Microsoft. Microsoft is a software company which is known worldwide, the widespread marketing of imitation softwares has forced Microsoft to further increase its marketing price. In other words, if not for imitation products, Bill Gates would be a much richer billionaire.

2)      Socially, the widespread marketing of imitation products will cause breakouts in illegal selling of imitation products in a country. These syndicates will go underground in order to avoid the authorities. These activities is considered as a crime and causes the increase of crime rates in a country. Even if it is legal for some countries to sell imitation products, if it is marketed at international level, it will affect other countries which considers imitation products as illegal. One of its affects will be as stated above, the increase in crime rates. In Malaysia itself, we can see the marketing of imitation CDs has caused these activities to go underground. Since it is illegal, the authorities now are having a hard time in comprehending these syndicates.  

3)      Politically, the widespread marketing of imitation products will lead to illegal smuggling of imitation products to some countries. The government will consider the crossing of borders to be an illegal action and considers it as a threat to national security. the government will now have to focus on preventing the illegal smuggling of imitation products thus a lot of effort is needed from the government. companies which loses market as a result of smuggling of imitation product will lose customers thus will force the government to take action to comprehend the situation. The smuggling of imitation products now has caused the government to focus on this problem and create more actions to comprehend these syndicates. Thus this has forced the government to allocate more money in bringing down this syndicate. To sum things up, the widespread of imitation products from one country have caused problems to other countries.  An example to look at is our country itself, Malaysia. The smuggling of imitation products has not only caused concerns from the immigration department, it is now a concern of the government, smuggling of imitation products has caused the number of illegal workers to rise in Malaysia as most of these people do not go back to their homeland

Conclusion : Countries should work together in comprehending the problem in order to create a stable economy for each country, to avoid social and political problems, and to bridge the gap between nations.