Senator Asks DOJ to Raid Shein, Temu Warehouses
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked the U.S. attorney general and Homeland Security Investigations "to prioritize Shein and Temu facilities for immediate inspections, seizures, and criminal investigations" over their counterfeits and intellectual property theft.
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"A recent Information Technology and Innovation Foundation investigation conducted test purchases from Shein and Temu and found that nearly half of the items were likely counterfeits, with Temu hosting particularly sophisticated and deceptive fakes while Shein continues to enable widespread copyright infringement of American designs," Cotton wrote.
"President [Donald] Trump’s decisive closure of the de minimis loophole has forced Shein and Temu to change their business model. Instead of millions of small, uninspected packages arriving daily from China, these companies now stock massive inventories in U.S. warehouses and distribution centers."