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Amazon successfully presses to leave consumer protections out of Senate China bill Jay Greene, Jeff Stein © Bess Adler/Bloomberg Employees fulfill online orders at an Amazon warehouse in Robbinsville, N.J. When the Senate passed legislation to counter China’s growing economic clout late Tuesday, it excluded a measure designed to protect online shoppers from counterfeit and dangerous products after aggressive lobbying led by Amazon. Popular Searches The measure, called the Inform Consumers Act, would have required online marketplaces such as Amazon to authenticate the identity of the third-party merchants who sell on their sites. Those steps could have forced e-commerce companies to better weed out counterfeit, stolen and unsafe products from rogue sellers who have been able to evade detection by remaining anonymous. The bill would have been enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, and violations would have been subject to civil penalties.

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