FILE PHOTO: A sign of Alibaba Group is seen during the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, December 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd was cited again as a marketplace for fakes on a US blacklist, another sign of increasing tension between the US and China.
The Office of the US Trade Representative on Friday included Alibaba’s Taobao online marketplace on its list of “Notorious Markets,” citing a high volume of reported counterfeiting and piracy. The agency acknowledged steps Alibaba has taken to make it easier for fakes to be removed, but said “the enforcement program reportedly continues to be burdensome and insufficient to end the sale of counterfeit products on the platform.”
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