Question 11889 — foreign trade

Summary

Mr. Édouard Bénard draws the attention of the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce, Crafts, Tourism and Purchasing Power to the recent scandal linked to the sale of child pornography, category A weapons and products that do not comply with security rules observed on the e-commerce sites Shein, AliExpress, Temu, Wish and eBay. If the Government decided to take legal action in November 2025 in order to put an end to the serious damage to public order caused by the repeated failures of Shein, these particularly serious facts must not be the tree that hides the forest of the problem of compliance with the rules by non-European marketplaces. As such, a request for an investigation was even sent to the European Commission, which recognized the seriousness of the situation. Like many parliamentarians, Mr. MP was alerted a few days ago by the toy and childcare industry to the alarming rate of non-compliant products sold on various platforms. A survey by the UFC Que Choisir association on October 30, 2025 highlighted the catastrophic manufacturing quality of the toys sold by Shein and Temu. Detachable parts, risks of ingestion, abnormally high levels of chemical substances: only one toy out of 54 purchased complied with European standards. In November 2025, the European Toy Manufacturers' Federation (TIE) published its own results: out of 70 toys purchased from non-European third-party sellers on 7 online marketplaces, 96% were non-compliant, 86% presented severe risks for the safety and health of children. Above all, some of these toys already identified in 2024 as dangerous are still available at sales on these sites. Faced with this, France and Europe are mobilizing by adopting instruments such as the Digital Services Act, the product safety regulation or the end of customs exemptions for small parcels. If these developments are going in the right direction, the time of European procedures is unfortunately not that of health protection and dangerous products continue to be marketed on several platforms. The European Federation of Toy Manufacturers is calling for the establishment as soon as possible of a mechanism for automatic delisting of marketplaces when the supervisory authorities identify an abnormally high rate of non-compliant products. Faced with the documented non-compliance rates, he asks if the Government intends to act to have the toys immediately removed by online marketplaces. dangerous that they offer for sale and what resources are likely to be devoted to the fight against the importation of these illegal products. Likewise, he asks about the initiatives that the Government intends to undertake with the European Commission in order to hasten the entry into force of the new safety rules on toys adopted by the European Parliament on November 25, 2025.

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