AGAIN!!! Alibaba is back on a U.S. government naughty list

Alibaba is back on a U.S. government naughty list, and the Chinese company is suggesting politics might be to blame.

The U.S. Trade Representative said Wednesday that the e-commerce giant's main consumer site allows the sale of an "unacceptably high" level of fake goods.
It restored the site, Taobao.com, to its "Notorious Markets" blacklist just four years after taking it off. As well as warning about the large amounts of counterfeit and pirated goods on Taobao, the agency reported a range of obstacles that brands face in efforts to have knockoffs removed from the site.
Alibaba (BABA, Tech30) said it was disappointed by the U.S. move, pointing to the the work it has done to combat counterfeiters.
The U.S. decision "leads us to question whether the USTR acted based on the actual facts or was influenced by the current political climate," Alibaba President Michael Evans said in a statement.

Source:CNN