“The volumes are so gigantic…” Faced with the small packages from Shein and Temu, can France really regulate?

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The success of e-commerce brands like Shein, Temu, and AliExpress poses challenges for the EU in terms of taxation, customs fees, and the control of packages coming from China, raising competition and consumer protection issues. JOAO LUIZ BULCAO / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
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Decryption: Bercy announced several measures to regulate and ensure the security of items sold online by e-commerce platforms, which supply billions of small, untaxed parcels across the European Union.
Eric Lombard, Amélie de Montchalin, Véronique Louwagie, Clara Chappaz: no fewer than four ministers were present this Tuesday morning, April 29, at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, fiddling with T-shirts and toys arriving from China, in front of the cameras. The aim of the staging: to show that the government also takes the regulation of Chinese e-commerce platforms and the compliance of the products they ship very seriously...
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