Violent Toys Flood Temu

ANTD.VN - Toys that incite violence such as plastic guns, water guns, plastic bullets, light-up swords, etc. are flooding the e-commerce application Temu. These are prohibited items for sale.

Violent toys flood e-commerce platform Temu

Accessing the Temu app, just type in the search "toys", customers will see a series of stalls selling toys that incite violence such as: electric gel ball guns, light-up swords, mechanical water guns, plastic bullets and magazines; rifle puzzles...

The price of each type of toy gun ranges from over 100,000 VND/piece to nearly 1 million VND/piece, while accessories such as bullets, magazines... cost from over 50,000 VND/product.

Notably, to increase orders, the stalls all hang signs of discounts and expiring discounts. Under each product, most of them have positive comments such as: "Bought the product again for the second time, really like it"...

Temu has just announced its operations in Vietnam since the end of September, but this platform does not have an official website to register its operations. Talking to the press, the Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy ( Ministry of Industry and Trade ), on October 24, Temu sent an official document to the Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy - Ministry of Industry and Trade regarding the implementation of requirements to comply with Vietnamese e-commerce laws when entering the market.

If so, Temu will have to comply with Vietnam's business laws. The above-mentioned items that incite violence will be banned from trading according to Decision 88/2000/QD-BTM on the detailed list of goods prohibited from circulation, prohibited commercial services, restricted goods and services, conditional business, and children's toys that are harmful to personality education , health, or to security, order, and social safety.

If intentionally trading, sanctions for trading dangerous toys, products that affect the healthy development of children, and trading goods are from 50 million to 100 million VND, depending on the behavior and level of violation, and additional sanctions may be applied.

Currently, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is proposing many solutions to manage goods traded via e-commerce, especially from cross-border platforms to ensure a competitive business environment for domestic and foreign enterprises, while preventing counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, banned goods, etc. to protect consumers.

In the third quarter online retail market report and fourth quarter forecast just released by e-commerce data platform Metric, over the past nine months, the Vietnamese e-commerce market has continued to maintain positive growth momentum.

Accordingly, the total transaction turnover of 9 months reached 227,700 billion VND, an increase of 37.66% over the same period in 2023. In the third quarter alone, it contributed 84,750 billion VND, an increase of 15.9% over the third quarter of 2023 with 897 million products.

Metric's statistics cover the 5 largest platforms currently, Shopee, TikTok Shop, Lazada, Tiki and Sendo, filtering out fake orders and gift products. Of which, TikTok Shop and Shopee are the 2 e-commerce platforms that recorded 110.6% and 11.3% growth in sales compared to the same period in 2023.

Vietnam is still considered a potential market for e-commerce platforms.

Source: https://www.anninhthudo.vn/do-choi-kich-dong-bao-luc-tran-ngap-temu-post593550.antd