Alibaba International Station upgrades its sales ban and restriction rules

As domestic and international regulatory requirements become stricter, in order to better comply with relevant domestic and international laws and regulations and promote the sustainable and healthy development of Alibaba International Station, the platform is now upgrading the prohibition and restriction rules. This rule revision will be publicized from January 10, 2023, and will officially take effect on January 17, 2023.

The announcement shows that after the scope of banned goods and their related disposal are changed by "Product Radar", if the number of merchants sent to "Product Radar" by the platform for banned illegal goods reaches 500 per quarter, the platform will impose a penalty of 6 points per time.

The "Alibaba International Station Prohibition and Restriction Sales Rules" show that according to changes in the external trade environment and the laws and regulations of specific importing countries, the platform will periodically issue or update announcements, corresponding rules and other platform policies to prohibit the display or sale of specific products in specific countries. If a merchant repeatedly violates the laws and regulations of his or her own country and the country of sale or the platform's policies, the platform will prohibit the merchant from publishing products and conducting transactions in the corresponding country.

The platform reminds all merchants and members to ship products and conduct transactions in compliance with regulations. Members are responsible for complying with the laws and platform policies applicable to any country of sale. If merchants are found to violate regulations in any scenario, including but not limited to publishing illegal products and information, transactions, providing false or erroneous qualification documents, conducting false and exaggerated propaganda, price fraud, product keyword deformation, stealing concepts, misplacing categories, causing damage to any third party, repeated violations, being notified by regulatory authorities, being exposed by important media, and other malicious circumventions of the above product country sales restrictions, once discovered, the platform will take penalties including but not limited to deleting product information, deducting points, blocking stores, restricting members from using website product functions, freezing accounts until closing accounts, and/or prohibiting merchants from selling specific or all products to specific countries in accordance with the corresponding rules. For users who have closed their accounts, the platform has the right to take measures to refuse the user to register on the platform again.

Restricted sales products refer to products that require pre-approval, business license, sales destination qualification and other licenses before they can be released to a specific destination market. Members must submit the legal licenses they have obtained to "My Alibaba-Certification Center-Certificate Upload-Regulatory License" for review before releasing the products. Products can only be released after passing the review.

The non-compliant products pushed by "Product Radar" include high-risk banned products and banned products. Among them, high-risk banned products mainly refer to: those that violate national laws, such as sensitive politics, pornography, gambling, drugs, guns, etc.; products that are likely to cause great social harm if used improperly, such as prescription drugs, controlled substances and related chemicals, Class III medical devices, synthetic steroids, drug-making tools, illegal dietary supplements, etc.; the rest are problematic products that are directly provided to the platform by regulatory agencies of various countries for disposal.