EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu | Retail industry

The EU Justice Commissioner said that in the midst of a print on popular Chinese retail platforms, it was shocked by the toxicity and dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu.

Every day, Michael McGrath, with 12 -meter low -valuable parcels from online retailers outside the block, promised to destroy the sale of goods that openly violate the law.

Chinese retailers are waiting for the close results of a secret shopping operation across the EU to further test the evidence that they have collected evidence that they are skipping EU laws.

Among the worst examples of McGrath, there was a baby Soothers with easy falling beads, which was a danger of drowning, because they did not have a arrangement size hole to make a baby possible to continue to get a baby possible.

Other products mentioned in a report published by MEPS this month include raincoats of children with toxic chemicals, sunglasses without UV filters, and children’s shorts with longer drawing wires that cause a travel danger.

They also found cosmetics containing butilpyphythylls, also known as Lillal, who have been chemically listed by the EU because of concerns that it has been chemically listed and has been influenced by fetal development since 2022. Last year, the UK government Told to consumers throw any product containing the material.

McGrath, Guardian’a “I was shocked by this and I think we have a duty to protect European consumers,” he said.

National consumer protection officials send rapid warnings during the warning of non -food products of the EU as a part of the Security Gate, which is also open to consumer complaints.

Last year, the security gate, toys, electric tools, automatic and chemical products before cosmetics, more than a third one of the 4,137 warnings broke a record.

Although consumer groups are concerned about security, McGrath is concerned that the platforms that explode in popularity in the last two years have damaged local enterprises through unfair competition.

“Growth has created a tremendous pressure on extraordinary and member state -level systems,” he said.

“I have determined that we have accelerated our product security laws and our consumer protection rules. Not only protects consumers, but also a very serious playground problem for European enterprises, because they are expected to compete with vendors who do not comply with our rules,” he said.

“They are exposed to important costs to comply with our needs in Europe and are not expected to compete with those who do not do the same thing.”

The EU figures show a 12-meter low-valuable products that come to the block per day, twice the 150 € -2023 for 2024 and a shipment of € 4.6 billion up to 2022.

Among the moves that the EU think is to remove a customs -free threshold of 150 € and to deter him low -valuable purchases and help to pay the cost of extra customs investigations.

The movement would repeat the situation in the US, in which Donald Trump signed an executive order to end a $ 800 -dollar -free threshold in an attack on Chinese sellers. The American buyers had to pay 30% more tax or at least $ 50 after June 1 this year.

It is also possible to create an EU -diameter customs authority to deal with systemic problems.

McGrath, on July 25 at a Beijing Ab-China summit to be expressed, “continues to be seen,” he said, but plans to appeal directly to him.

“We will definitely take care of the Chinese authorities and visit this year later,” he said.

Shein said that this year has invested $ 15 million in compliance and safety initiatives, including 2.5 million product and safety quality tests, and that they have partnership with 15 test centers, including operations in the UK and Germany. He said he has removed 500 sellers since the release of the market.

A spokesman said: “It is very important to gain and maintain the trust of our consumers, and we are completely determined to ensure that the products we offer are safe and compatible.

“All sellers must comply with Shein’s behavior rules and strict safety standards and at the same time comply with the relevant laws and regulations of the markets we operate.”

Temu was approached for a comment.