Have the article read by OpenAI (Beta). Please note that AI translations may take some time to process.Brussels (dpa) – Germany is pushing for an EU crackdown on Chinese goods sold online and imported to the European Union that don’t comply with the bloc’s internal market rules.
“These parcels are a direct threat to European industrial producers as well as law-abiding trading companies,” German Deputy Economy Minister Sven Giegold said on Thursday in Brussels.
EU industry and competitiveness ministers are in the Belgian capital to debate the bloc’s economic performance and ability to compete with international trade rivals like the United States and China.
Giegold said that EU member states Germany, France, Poland, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands are calling on the European Commission to use all powers under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to investigate.
The DSA is a set of powerful EU laws governing online e-commerce companies such as Chinese online retailers Temu and Shein.
“Every day, hundreds of parcels come mainly from China with goods which do not correspond with EU market rules,” Giegold said. He noted that “a significant share of these products” do not comply with intellectual property rules, data protection regulations and environmental standards, citing testing data.
“A common market which takes itself seriously has to make sure that the products sold on that market correspond to the laws we set democratically in Europe,” he added. (26 September)
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