One of the largest eCommerce companies in the world is in the sights of the US.
The sale of fake products and brand piracy was the warning given.
Messaging platform is also used for this purpose and will be more closely watched.
For the first time after many years of operation, the Chinese eCommerce platform aliexpress, owned by Alibaba, and the digital ecosystem of wechatwhich belongs to the Tencent company, were joined by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR, for its acronym in English) … but not for good reasons.
US authorities reported that both platforms are in the List of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy than year after year since 2011.
This annual list has a key objective: to point out the physical and online markets that allegedly participate in or facilitate the substantial counterfeiting of registered trademarks, promoting copyright piracy and giving access to the production and trafficking of illegal merchandise, which also impacts in the economic growth of companies.
For a decade, the creators of the list have highlighted Argentina, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Paraguay, Thailand and Ukraine among the most notorious countries for the sale of illegal products internationally.
AliExpress and WeChat to the list
The list of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy in the United States indicates the most suspicious markets, so the 2021 edition identified 42 electronic markets and 35 physical ones that will be in the operational crosshairs this year.
“This includes the first-ever identification of AliExpress and the WeChat e-commerce ecosystem, two major China-based online marketplaces that are reported to facilitate significant trademark counterfeiting,” the USTR noted.
Likewise, the list indicates that the eCommerce markets that have their headquarters in China Baidu Wangpan, DHGate, Pinduoduo and Taobao They will continue to appear due to their prominent demand worldwide, since at least nine face-to-face markets, also in that Asian country, are widely known for the manufacture, distribution and sale of counterfeit products.
“The global trade in counterfeit and pirated goods undermines critical US innovation and creativity and harms American workers.”
“This illicit trade also increases the vulnerability of workers involved in the manufacture of counterfeit products to exploitative labor practices, and counterfeit products can present significant health and safety risks to consumers and workers around the world,” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a statement. .
According to estimates by the United States Chamber of Commerce, the counterfeiting of well-known products and brands has had a negative impact of more than 30 billion dollars only for the US economy.
And although other traditional platforms and markets appear every year, there are countries like Spain that managed to disappear from the blacklist in 2020 by changing their commercial policies and after being singled out, at least, in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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