Customs stopped checking out counterfit ICs?

[JW]

Is there nobody else here that remembers some threads within the past
year about some regulars here getting burned by counterfeit power
transistors?

Yup. And FWIW, we've been burned before with counterfeit SRAM.

See:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....1?q=cypress+sram+counterfeit#303772ded3ff4f31

 

[Nobody]

SO you think the government should have the expertise to know a fake IC from a
real one? You think the bureaucrat should be the judge and jury?

Well, as you're mentioning "judge and jury" ... in a trial neither the
judge nor the jury are experts on the matter being tried. Instead, they
hear evidence on specific facts from both sides, then make their decision.
They don't just let the plaintiff decide the verdict.