Last night we tried to get some information from the International Chamber of Commerce. We got an e-mail that threw out some numbers at us, one being that the OECD is going to issue a report that has some members measuring cross-border traffic, and the number they've attached to that is a very big one, $176 billion U.S. in international counterfeit trade. That's just international, and that number doesn't include Internet trade or counterfeit products manufactured and sold within a country's border. They estimate that there's in the range of $120 billion in knock-off goods sold on the Internet. There's an organization called MarkMonitor.
Ford Motor Company has indicated that counterfeit auto parts are costing them in the range of about $1 billion a year in costs.
The final number that this fellow was able to give us was for the City of Los Angeles: they reported that counterfeiting cost the city $5.2 billion in sales in 2005. Those are big numbers.