EU ministers agree customs fee to crack down on parcels from Chinese companies such as Shein and Temu

@KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone

There are many reports on Shein, Temu and other Chinese companies' sweatshops. As I understand you are from Sweden, there is one by Globalworks Lund AB, an independent not-for-profit enterprise based in Sweden. One report says, among others:

This research shows how Shein and Temu take exploitation to a new level. Our findings high-light mechanisms and practices that increase price pressure on garment suppliers and vendors. Additional harm is caused by unrelenting delivery speed requirements, which force suppliers to take on overstocking risks or incur penalties for delays. Manufacturers and vendors are finding it increasingly difficult to break even, let alone make a profit. To safeguard their businesses, they not only pay their employees less and force them to work longer hours, but they also adopt an increasingly non-committal management style that weakens job security, base wages, regulated working time, and occupational health and safety standards.

Globalworks concludes:

Temu and Shein are spearheading a deeply concerning trend towards the reemergence of a sweatshop economy in which workers labour without formal contracts and under unregulated working hours. Worsening working conditions impact suppliers at lower tiers all over China. Due to intense competition in the fashion industry, more brands and producers will try to follow Shein’s and Temu’s lead. Regulators have little time left to act.

Here is the entire report: Suppliers and Workers Straightjacketed by Ultra-fast Fashion - Labour and human rights risks at Shein and Temu in China -- [pdf]

There are many reports by consumer protection agencies across Europe and the world on toxic and dangerous products sold on Temu, Shein & Co (one is here, and, no, Chinese companies have their own supply chains and their own sweatshops, European companies that sold these unsafe products would immediately be closed by the authorities).

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oh no I can't anymore buy slave-made product AND not pay taxes on it😲

The consumer is screwing himself in the first place by buying at temu and shein.