Alibaba’s year-long effort to endear themselves to the global community has yielded a major benefit: they have been left off an annual blacklist of e-commerce platforms targeted by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for the sale of counterfeit goods.
The company, which has undergone a self-proclaimed ‘year of globalization’, has spent the last 12 months striking deals globally to bring more branded merchandise to China’s growing consumer class.
