Chinese ecommerce sites owned by Alibaba and Tencent are among the latest facing a crackdown in the US over suspected online fraud.
The news follows the release of the Office of the United States Trade Representative annual report on “notorious markets” that “reportedly engage in or facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy”.
Over the past few years, the list has included a wide variety of Chinese companies and the 2021 report is no different, adding Alibaba’s AliExpress and Tencent’s WeChat among dozens of other entities.
According to the US, these two platforms are “significant China-based online markets that reportedly facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting”.
Overall, the USTR list 42 online markets and 35 physical markets as potential avenues for counterfeiting and copyright piracy. In addition to AliExpress and WeChat, Baidu Wangpan, DHGate, Pinduoduo, and Alibaba’s Taobao continue to be listed after being added in recent years.
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Source: TechRader
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