EU to make Temu, Shein and Amazon liable for ‘unsafe’ goods

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/eu-make-temu-shein-amazon-liable-unsafe-goods-ft-reports-2025-02-01/

by LordAnubis12

18 comments

  3. The EU gets a lot of criticism for over-regulating but I’m happy we do have one power in the world who does regulations like this.

    Imagine the consumer and environmental regulations we would have if the EU had a completely laissez-faire attitude. It would not be good for individuals or the planet.

  5. It should go for all marketplaces which hosts and facilitates sales for companies.

  8. Yes! this’ll totally show Temu and Shein who’s boss. Except, no, it won’t. Prices are just gonna skyrocket, European consumers will get screwed, and Chinese factories will keep churning out the same cheap goods—just through a different middleman.

    Meanwhile, Amazon will slap another ‘compliance fee’ on sellers, and somehow, Brussels will act surprised when small businesses start collapsing under regulations. Classic EU move: fight capitalism with more paperwork, and the only real winner is red tape.

  10. Good. Some of the trash Amazon lets vendors sell through their platform is downright dangerous. I had a terribly made plug come with a children’s nightlight that I had to throw away cause I judged it to be too dangerous in my child’s room. Recently saw another review where the same plug just burned out.

  12. When assessing whether a new policy is a good thing, one should weigh up the pros and cons that it will have.

    There are always pros, and always cons. If you examine a policy and can’t see any, you’re not thinking hard enough.

    Just because a policy has cons, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be implemented. But it’s best we try and identify them so we can accurately assess its potential impact.

    With this in mind, what would people say are the downsides of this policy?

  13. Cool. But like… how are they actually going to *make* them?

  16. I doubt it will really apply to Amazon though even lots of unsafe shit is sold there. Sounds more like a push from Amazon to get rid of Temu et al to sell similar crap with a better markup themselves, as usual. Can’t get Jeff Bezos next yacht get too small.

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