The Biden White House responded on Friday to a plea from House Democrats by proposing new rules for foreign shipping to close the notorious “de minimis” loophole, but took no immediate action.
South Korean officials found toxic substances in women’s accessories that Chinese e-commerce giants Shein, AliExpress, and Temu sell.
The tech industry publication the Information discovered a wide variety of dangerous baby products on Temu and Shein.
Hundreds of Chinese merchants who supply products to global discount shopping app Temu stormed the company offices in Guangzhou on Monday, waving protest signs and chanting slogans accusing the company of cheating its suppliers.
Amazon is planning to launch a steep discount website featuring direct shipments from dubious Chinese suppliers, multiple outlets reported in late June.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced on Tuesday that his office is suing the Chinese mobile phone shopping app Temu.
Chinese cheap goods e-marketplace Temu “encouraged” suppliers to use Chinese cotton in their products despite the vast majority of that cotton being produced in occupied East Turkistan, the technology news site The Information alleged in a report published on Thursday, apparently disregarding the risk of using materials tainted by slave labor.
Justice for All, a human rights group based in Chicago, called for a boycott of Chinese online retail giant Shein to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday.
Chinese e-commerce company Temu launched a campaign targeting American consumers reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars this weekend, spearheaded by massive spending on Super Bowl advertising.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is among a growing number of voices condemning China’s Temu after the online marketplace aired multiple commercials during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVIII broadcast on CBS.
The Chinese discount shopping application Temu aired three commercials during Sunday’s Super Bowl, encouraging Americans to “shop like a billionaire” at its website and disregard significant evidence that Temu profits from the Chinese Communist Party’s enslavement of tens of thousands of Uyghurs and other members of Turkic ethnic groups in East Turkistan.
