The tech industry publication the Information revealed on Tuesday that it had discovered a wide variety of baby and toddler products on the Chinese e-commerce applications Temu and Shein that pose a danger to their intended users, including padded crib bumpers that the U.S. government has banned from sale.
Temu and Shein are both China-based consumer applications. Shein specializes in “fast fashion” items marketed to young women, though it also sells clothing for men and children. Temu sells clothing as well as household goods, art supplies, health-related products, and more. Both sell products widely considered to be very low quality at cheap prices.
The companies are massive international operations that rake in billions of dollars for their Chinese owners, particularly in the United States. Shein reached record-high profits of $2 billion in 2023, up from $700 million in 2022, lagging only behind Amazon and Walmart in online fast fashion sales in America. Temu’s parent company, Pinduoduo, which operates a parallel cheap goods retailer in China, saw a 246-percent increase in net profits in the first quarter of 2024; 60 percent of Temu’s transactions in 2023 were in America.
The success of both companies is largely based on being able to dramatically undercut the prices of their competitors and ship their products directly to American consumers from their Chinese suppliers, cutting shipping middlemen. Their trade practices have fallen under intense criticism in the United States, as evidence suggests they both have ties to China’s sprawling Uyghur slave trade, the backbone of the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people in occupied East Turkistan. Shein has also been accused of stealing copyrighted designs to rapidly manufacture clothing items, while Temu is facing legal action in Arkansas for essentially running a customer “data-theft business.” […]
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