The United States added China’s third-largest e-commerce platform, Pinduoduo.com, to its list of “notorious markets” for violations of intellectual property rights and kept China on its priority watch list for piracy and counterfeiting concerns, reported Reuters.
The US Trade Representative’s Office (USTR) placed Pinduoduo on its blacklist of commercial marketplaces that fail to curb the sale of counterfeit products, along with Alibaba Group’s Taobao.com, China’s largest e-commerce platform.
China’s inclusion on the list “reflects the urgent need to remediate a range of intellectual property-related concerns,” a USTR official told Reuters reporters on a call to discuss the report.