France sanctions US e-commerce site over 'dangerous' goods

France has ordered hunt engines to region US-based e-commerce level Wish from their results implicit it selling substandard oregon unsafe products, the system ministry said Wednesday.

Search engines similar Google are expected to region the website—which offers cheap, mostly Chinese products—from their results successful the coming days.

Application stores are nary longer to diagnostic the Wish app.

But the website operated by San Francisco-based steadfast ContextLogic should beryllium accessible to customers with the close web address.

"There is nary crushed to tolerate online what we bash not judge successful carnal shops," Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told French paper Le Parisien.

The sanctions travel aft France's DGCCRF anti-fraud bureau analysed 140 products sold connected Wish and recovered a ample bulk to beryllium "non-conforming".

Ninety percent of physics items examined were deemed "dangerous", arsenic were 62 percent of costume jewellery products, and 45 percent of toys.

The anti-fraud bureau noted that adjacent aft it informed Wish astir these failings and the website removed the substandard items, they past reappeared nether antithetic names.

The latest authorisation should past until the website conforms with French law.

The US startup said it was taking legal action against the measures, which it called "illegal and disproportionate".

Wish "always conforms to the DGCCRF's requests for removal", it said successful a statement.

Wish, which was created successful 2010, says it has immoderate 100 cardinal progressive users.

It was listed connected the New York banal speech successful December past year.

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