The fashion industry’s battle between profit, people and planet has reached the international stage. Legislative regulation has entered the arena and is taking different forms across nations. The impacts are obvious – mounting textile waste in the global South,

The Biden administration said on Friday it was moving to curb low-value shipments entering the U.S. duty-free under the $800 "de minimis" threshold that has been exploited by Chinese e-commerce firms such as Shein and PDD Holdings' Temu.

The Biden administration will restrict the use of a trade provision that lets China-founded e-commerce giants such as Temu and Shein to more easily ship to the U.S., a move that comes amid a groundswell of bipartisan pressure to close what critics regard as a “loophole.