The black economy can be guessed at by the gap between the volume of goods exported to Azerbaijan and the volume of the same goods recorded as imports.
They make goods which are exported to 38 countries in Asia, Europe and South America.
American businesses could be forced to drop the prices of their exported goods, because buyers would have increased exposure to claims from American copyright holders.
But it makes its exported goods more expensive for other countries to buy.
For years big technology companies that employed thousands of people, made and sold real products, and once in a while even exported actual American-made goods, had to accept being the fat targets of patent trolls.
India also claims goods from other countries are being packaged in Nepal and exported to India.
Moreover, a large chunk of its emissions come from producing goods consumed by rich developed nations, which have exported much of their manufacturing industry to China.
Export-led growth works well in a world where the price elasticity of demand for the exported goods is effectively infinite, where any decrease in costs will always lead to an expansion in sales.
Take Vietnam's customs law, passed in December 2001, which allows customs offices to hold suspected counterfeit goods at the border, and thus stop them being exported.
But according to a number of studies, roughly half of East Asia's exports to China are components, such as semiconductors and hard drives, for goods that are ultimately exported elsewhere.
All of this economic destruction is creating a perilous global race to devalue currencies for trade purposes against the dollar (a weaker currency makes the price of exported goods more attractive).
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