The Biden administration named six Chinese online and nine bricks-and-mortar markets on Thursday in its latest list of “notorious” sellers of counterfeit goods violating US trademarks and copyright law. Produced by the US Trade Representative’s office, the 2021 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy included two first-time online Chinese entries – the AliExpress and WeChat e-commerce ecosystems – in addition to long-time entries Baidu Wangpan, DHGate, Pinduoduo and Taobao. Global counterfeiting costs the US economy some US$29.2 billion annually, the report said, and China is the world’s largest producer of fake goods. AliExpress and Taobao are units of...