I don't disagree. The question is how they'd do it.

There's an interesting dilemma here you're not considering. Any more red tape here would make it extremely difficult for legitimate small businesses to sell anything online.

Simple solutions that you have just thought about usually don't work, especially when the topic seems like it might employ several researchers and lawmakers.

Ultimately, Amazon should inspect the factories of the providers, period. Both to check for child work and carcinogens.

If your business is to source from all 6-letter random “IOWURP Products”, then quality checks becomes your job. Unhappy? Then do like all other distributors: Only accept direct deliveries from Sony and Beats.

Is it a dilemma? If you sell goods that don’t meet safety regulations and cause damages you get fined and penalized punitively. If you sell fake stuff you get fined.

That there may be some regulatory capture where the fines don’t really matter, but we have a system in place to deal with fraud and unsafe poor products.

> If you sell goods [...]

Amazon/Temu etc would just prove legally that they are not the ones selling the product.

... And that is why, in the case of illicit products, current French legislation heaps responsibility on the platform is they fail to efficiently prevent sales by their hosted traders.

temu just ships in a plain bag/box and customs would have to open ever package to know what is in it. They rarely have enough people for that.

That’s when customs blocks small shipments, or as they recently did, start charging tariffs on everything - no more de minimis.

Then it only makes sense to do larger shipments to distributors, and those are easier to track and intercept.

But it’s not like the war on drugs every succeeded, and that never had to worry about economic viability.

If they want, they have enough people to do it: They can assign a single person and hold the packages until reviewed.

Once the hold time reaches a year, the single person will be enough to handle the orders that still remain...

They might have to say anything from Temu is banned. No need to open the box, just check the shipper.

And you've just created a nice rich industry of 're-shippers.' Though come to think of it, that's already essentially what drop shipping is.