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US adds another Chinese e-commerce site to ‘notorious’ blacklist
- Monday | 29th April, 2019
While Alibaba has taken steps to address counterfeit products offered and sold on the Taobao marketplace, companies continue to see widespread infringement, USTR said. (Reuters) – The United States has added China’s third-largest e-commerce platform to its blacklist of “notorious markets” for violations of intellectual property rights and kept China on its priority watch list for piracy and counterfeiting concerns. The US Trade Representative’s Office placed Pinduoduo.com, which USTR described as third largest by number of users, on its blacklist of commercial marketplaces that fail to curb the sale of counterfeit products. The more “barrier-free” environment can draw illegal activity like the trade and manufacture of counterfeit and pirated goods without proper oversight, USTR said. It also kept Alibaba Group’s taobao.com, China’s largest e-commerce platform, on the list.
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