Overview
- More than 50,000 people visited Shein’s new space inside Paris’s BHV in its first five days, with an average basket of €45 and BHV reporting notable cross‑shopping in other departments.
- After Shein removed childlike sex dolls and banned weapons from its site, France paused a move to suspend the platform’s access but kept multiple investigations active, and Shein halted its third‑party marketplace in France.
- The Paris prosecutor is probing Shein, Temu, AliExpress and Wish over minors’ access to pornographic content and banned weapons, while Shein says the listings came from third‑party sellers it removed and sanctioned.
- French authorities launched large‑scale customs checks at Charles de Gaulle Airport, saying 100,000 low‑value parcels have been examined and that any detected fraud will trigger sanctions.
- France has urged an EU Digital Services Act review as debate grows over closing the €150 duty‑free import exemption by 2028, with 4.6 billion low‑value parcels entering the EU in 2024 and product tests finding high rates of non‑compliance on these platforms.