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Biden FTC Reportedly Looked To Bolster Antitrust Case Against Amazon With Help From Chinese E-Commerce Giant

The Biden Federal Trade Commission (FTC) quoted two people who are familiar with the problem and communicated with a major Chinese electronic trading company about the Amazon price setting policy related to Amazon’s lawsuit against Amazon for Amazon. Is told.

According to what was reported, the FTC staff was reported to have sent a letter to Temu, and talked to the company’s representatives from December 2024 to the company. According to Information Daniel J. GilmanFormer FTC lawyer advisor and current advanced international law and economics center. Amazon’s price setting convention is at the center of A Biden FTC Exclusive Law For a company that claims that Amazon’s pricing practice is limited to the disadvantage of competitors, the policy of the company uses infrastructure to disadvantage that consumers are disadvantaged. 。

“The Internet is now surprisingly surprised by the report of even more strange behavior from the committee, which means Temu’s testimony, a Chinese online marketplace that directly connects Chinese online marketplace and Chinese manufacturers. He is building an antitrust law for Amazon, and he wrote the truth on Tuesday on Tuesday. “It’s a suspicious case, the new FTC leadership should look closely in the details, and about whether this specific antitrust law is a wise way to develop FTC resources.” (Related: Exclusive: The GOP person is looking for an internal FTC probe to identify the cause of the leakage to gas executives).

Temu is famous for being introduced in February 2024 as a famous television advertiser to American viewers in Super Bowl, and has appeared as a major global player in the e -commerce field. However, Diane Rinaldo -Resident Associate Research Center for Strategy and International Research Center- Explained In the October 2024 report, Temu was a “information gathering spyware program that pretends to be an electronic commercial transaction site”.

RINALDO has argued that Temu is a major data collection tool that proves that it is difficult to completely delete from the user’s device.

“I’m worried about whether the invasion of the app was the end of the story, but considering that Temu has an existing relationship with his arm. [Chinese Communist Party (CCP)] There is an obligation to monitor, manage, and advertise, and cooperate with CCP authorities, to cooperate under the Chinese National Information Law, and are much worth the scrutiny than currently receiving. ” With access to user devices, it is a very powerful means for secret monitoring, and the potential tools for dispersed service refusal are actually strategic competition with China. It should be considered as possible. “

Furthermore, there is a concern that Temu may not completely comply with the Uyghur Forced Labor Production Law (UFLPA) among the elected officials. It aims to spread the US market related to Uyghur Islamic Labor in China.

“Temu’s business model, which depends on the provisions of de minimis, should not be liable for other ban on UFLPA and forced labor. 2023 Provisional survey result report From the lower house election committee related to CCP. “Temu does not report the compliance system for positively investigating and securing UFLPA compliance. Temu is a product to Americans produced in forced labor in violation of US laws. The only measure required to guarantee not to ship was to agree to the supplier to prohibit the use of forced labor. “

“Temu has not clearly prohibited the seller of third -party sellers based on the origin of the new Jiang Autonomous Region,” said the committee.

In general, Biden FTC was hostile to American technology companies under the leadership of former FTC Chair, Lina Khan, and acted on meta in addition to Amazon. Khan resigned from her post just before the day of the inauguration ceremony, and she exchange The current FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson.

FTC refused the comment. Amazon and Temu did not respond to the comment request.

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