Deere Cotton-Bale Packager Seeks Ban on Alleged China Knockoffs
- Tama Group asks U.S. to halt import, sale by rival packagers
- Israel-based company has been Deere’s exclusive supplier
Photographer: Eddie Seal/Bloomberg
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A company that develops packaging for cotton bales harvested with Deere & Co. tractors says it’s facing Chinese knockoffs and wants a U.S. trade agency to block the copycats from entering the country.
Israel-based Tama Group and its U.S. unit filed a complaint on July 7 with the U.S. International Trade Commission saying two Chinese companies and their North American distributors are working together to sell cheaper replicas of a plastic wrapping Tama designed and patented more than a decade ago.