White House Targets Chinese Retailers With Planned Trade Fix

  • White House seeks to prevent abuse of trade exemption
  • Lawmakers and industry have pushed for trade reforms

The US textile industry says that the recent boom in e-commerce—from Shein and Temu, in particular—has hamstrung manufacturers. 

Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg
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The Biden administration is moving to narrow a trade loophole that Chinese online retailers like Shein and Temu have used to ship a torrent of packages containing cheap goods into the US every day.