Japan's retail chain punished in China for crossing red line on Taiwan, again
By Li Lei
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Muji, a Japanese multinational retailer, was fined 200,000 yuan ($31,000) in Shanghai by the local commercial authority for selling products labelled “Made in Taiwan,” according to the official Sina Weibo account of China Industry and Commerce News on Wednesday.

China’s Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System said the multinational chain store in Shanghai imported a total of 119 steel clothes hangers labelled “Made In Taiwan” from Japan last August. The product was available in its offline stores and flagship store on Taobao, China’s largest e-commerce platform.

Muji was fined because it failed in fulfilling its obligation to inspect the imported products, most of which have been sold in the Chinese market. The store has changed the label of the relevant items after the punishment was announced.

This is the second time that Muji has been punished this year for violating the China’s advertising law.

Muji was punished by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China at the end of last January for mislabeling Taiwan and Hainan Province and omitting several islands belonging to China in its furniture catalogue.