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AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales

The fine is more than double the penalty that Temu was slapped with for similar DSA violations. | Illustration: The Verge

AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million (about $629 million) fine for violating Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products from being sold on the e-commerce platform. The European Commission ruled that AliExpress didn’t take effective measures to reduce the dissemination of illegal products, noting the company “allocated insufficient staff” to verify products, and failed to remove unsafe toys and dangerous cosmetics for “multiple weeks” after they were detected.

“The spread of counterfeit clothing, unsafe toys, dangerous cosmetics and other illegal and harmful products is not …

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