Japanese retailer Muji fined 200,000 yuan in Shanghai for listing Taiwan as a country on clothes hangers
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/05/24
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In the latest salvo in its war over names, or “namefare”
Muji shop. (By Wikimedia Commons)
as the National Interest has dubbed it, Japanese retailer MUJI has been fined 200,000 yuan (US$31,000) in Shanghai for packaging that lists Taiwan as a country, reported Reuters.
In an official statement, the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce said that Muji was fined because last August imported 119 clothes hangers from Japan that had Taiwan listed as their “country of origin,” reported state-run media outlet China Industry and Commerce News on Wednesday.
The fine was imposed by the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce in late March because the labels breached China’s advertising law by “hurting China’s dignity and interest.” [FULL STORY]
