EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

I mean that was the whole point of Temu... buy shit dirt cheap because over-regulation harms the consumer.

Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307237

Why there is a difference between selling and allowing to sell? If the product is sold in your site, you must be responsible of it.

I am very pro free market, but Temu with data harvesting and selling illegal projects should be banned together with tiktok...

Isn't there some kind of law to disallow imports without a CE / RoHS / etc label? Why allow it to enter the EU, and then fine the seller afterwards?

It seems like quite a light punishment for selling such dangerous products that could literally kill people. The dodgy e-bike batteries have already been linked to several fires.

bigclivedotcom takes apart some of the Temu stuff on YouTube and some of the electronics is atrocious.

There goes my panda shaped coffeeblower.

This has been going on for a year now.

The EU began enforcing a small parcel tax directly against Temu last May [0] and France has been strongly lobbying against Shein and Temu [1]. The EU has also made Chinese overproduction a critical topic of discussion for EU-China relations [2][3], and barring Temu and Shein is backed by both unions and industrial groups within Europe [4].

All of this is linking to the EU's strategy of playing hardball against Chinese support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine [5][6], as well as the Chinese perception that the EU is a has-been [7] as well as active info-war against a European state [8].

[0] - https://www.ft.com/content/102e18d7-d06b-4405-a347-97bb3c373...

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/b1fdbad1-2793-4975-a10b-74bb928d3...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/eu-law...

[3] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260326IP...

[4] - https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/09/15/les-indus...

[5] - https://www.bruegel.org/podcast/how-war-ukraine-reshaping-eu...

[6] - https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2025-01-...

[7] - https://fddi.fudan.edu.cn/_t2515/57/f8/c21257a743416/page.ht...

[8] - https://www.defense.gouv.fr/desinformation/nos-analyses-froi...

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