China Targets Online Shopping in the Gray Zone

(Beijing) – Overseas shopping by Chinese consumers through the Internet, which analysts say generated more than 100 billion yuan in sales in 2014, has been booming in a regulatory gray zone.

Those days may be over. The State Council, China's cabinet, on April 9 ordered China Customs and other government agencies to crack down on imports of counterfeit goods and products that violate intellectual property rights sold through online outlets.