China urges France to 'halt' fast-fashion law, warns of countermeasures
Beijing urged France on Thursday to abandon its recently implemented law on ultra-fast fashion, lambasting the new measure targeting Chinese firms including Shein and Temu as "clearly discriminatory".
"China urges France to immediately halt the implementation of the anti-ultra-fast fashion law," commerce ministry spokeswoman Huang Ling said at a news conference.
"Should France persist in this course of action, China will take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises," she warned.
04 September 2026, 03:07
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Under the recently implemented law, anybody who claims something about fashion, clothing, attire, etc., in such a manner as to make the fashion, clothing, attire, etc., appear fast is subject to grave penalties in the French Court of Taste, which last heard a case in 1748, in the famous matter of bouffants. Experts are divided in their opinion of how the new procedure would be used against China, some saying fashion, clothing, attire, etc., in China is always fast, and others saying that fashion, clothing, attire, etc., in China is never fast.
