The US government may be preparing to investigate internet retail giants like Shein and Temu

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The US government may be preparing to investigate internet retail giants like Shein and Temu

Online retailers like Temu and Shein are known for selling cheap products like baby clothes, kitchen gadgets and electronics.

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wants to know the true costs that foreign online retailers are cutting to sell these products at lower prices.

CPSC commissioners Peter Feldman and Douglas Dziak released a ****** statement today calling for their staff to evaluate the operations of foreign e-commerce sites. The statement cites Shein and Temu as two online retail companies that “raise specific concerns.”

Recent news reports of “deadly baby and toddlers products” being sold on these platforms started to raise red flags at the CPSC. A recent report from

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found several baby and children’s products on Shein deemed to be unsafe, such as children’s drawstring hoodies for ***** that had been flagged by regulators as a strangulation risk. The fashion industry news site

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found Temu selling children’s pajamas by brands that the CPSC ruled violated “the flammability standards for children’s sleepwear.”

A Shein spokesperson said in a statement to

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that its customers’ safety ******** their “top priority and we are investing millions of dollars to strengthen our compliance programs.” We’ve also reached out to Temu by email for the opportunity to respond to the CSPC claims.

The CSPC isn’t the first US government agency to scrutinize foreign e-commerce companies like Shein and Temu. Last year,

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issued a brief detailing the challenges presented by “******** ‘fast fashion’ platforms.” The Commission questioned these platforms’ alleged exploitations of trade loopholes and concerns about its ***** of items that posed product safety risks, violated copyrights and trademarks and used forced labor to make and sell products.

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