Temu, Shein and Amazon to be liable in EU for ‘unsafe’ or ‘illegal’ goods

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The EU plans to train e-commerce platforms, such as Temu, Shein and Amazon Marketplace, which are responsible for hazardous or illegal goods sold online, from China to import flood.

According to the draft proposal of the financial times, the customs reforms obliged Online platforms Provided data before the goods to the EU, allowing those responsible to better control and check the packages. The proposal comes due to concerns, which also refer to European customers from Asia.

At present any individual Am I Who buys products online is treated as importer for customs purposes? But the reforms will exchange responsibility for the platforms if accepted.

“The large amount of goods safe, falsified or otherwise leads to consumer safety and health risks, has an unstable effect on the environment, and abuses unfair competition for legal business areas,” the suggestion said.

The EU has imported 4.6 million low-value parcels in 2024, fourth growth of 2022. The net volume of these items is “unstable tension for the authorities” according to the project.

According to the reforms, online retailers must “collect the relevant responsibility and VAT” and “provide compliance with other EU requirements.” The proposal also eliminates the current freight of goods worth 150 euros, paying customs duties.

According to the project, customs data from 27 national authorities will be installed and the EU Central Central Customs Author (Euca) has been set up. The document is still being discussed internal and can be changed in front of the publication on February 5.

“Euca will be able to screen the products based on this information and find out the possible risks, even before the burden of transport goods,” the document said.

“This will allow the customs authorities to have a complete overview of the supply chains, expecting controlling and exporting controls and making suggestions to Member States.”

Contramium is worth a clothing industry in about 12 billion euros year old sales (5% of income), the cosmetics industry (5% of sales), according to the sale industry (almost 9% of sales), according to the offer.

The rules of the newly waste of the alliance also obliges the sellers to promote the cost of using unwanted products, including clothing.

The EU will also discuss a unloading fee for each package, which is first discovered by FT.

Under individual rules, the market behavior of large online platforms, the commission already studies Shani and Amazon and started the trial against AliExpress and Temu.

Online markets are released from other vendors for the products sold on their website, unless they sell illegal or dangerous goods, or fail to remove them quickly.

Diocese and Shane have previously told FT that they correspond to the EU rules. The Diouus said he supported the changes in politics that benefit consumers.

Amazon has announced that it has active means to prevent insecure or non-relevant goods listed on its website.