It’s been too easy for counterfeiters to get away with it, the company argued in a new appeal.
Alibaba has long been accused of housing counterfeiters, leading to its eBay-like Taobao platform regularly being blacklisted by the US. But the company sees itself as a victim, too, and wants help from the government.
The e-commerce giant made a public appeal at a Monday press conference, later published on its news website , calling for the Chinese government to « impose tougher criminal sanctions » on counterfeiters.
In the appeal, Alibaba said China’s « ambiguous » counterfeiting laws were too lax for any kind of meaningful progress to occur.
Alibaba claims to have identified 4,495 leads tied to counterfeiting last year, each involving a value of goods exceeding the statutory minimum of 50,000 yuan ($7,280) for criminal investigation.
