They ensure that platforms have anticompetitive behaviors. They summon all political sectors and study the French model.
In the midst of the crisis of the industry and the boom of the door -to -door purchases, The Argentine Chamber of clothing is preparing a “anti Shein” lawaccording to business sources to Scope. In the sector they plan a call to all political parties to join the initiative, according to what they indicated to this medium. The project will promote environmental controls, toxicity levels, certificates of origin, tariff and tax changes, among other issues. They ensure that by anti -competitive behaviors they are having exponential growth and exceed 105 million users in the region. In June of this year the French Parliament sanctioned a rule that they are using as a model.
If the industry is one of the sectors most beaten by the crisis, within that universe the textile item leads all fall rates. During the second quarter of 2025, five out of ten companies in the sector registered a collapse in their sales Regarding the same period in the previous year and the average decrease was 7%. By expanding the look at the last two years, the panorama is aggravated: eight out of ten companies reduced their sales and the average fall reaches 28%, according to data from the Foundation Protected.
To the strong recession that hit the pockets of consumers throughout 2024, particular dynamics such as the dollar cost rise and the import opening are added. This last point, hit the textile sector clothing even stronger due to the door -to -door shopping boomparticularly on platforms such as Shein and Temu, which according to sources in the business sector act with anti -competitive conditions.
According to the Tower Sensor Mercado Intelligence company, Active Users in Latin America grew by 143% and reached 105 million. In dialogue with Azz Stream, the former Minister of Economy, Emmanuel Álvarez Agis, said that “the government is prioritizing a very short term,” because those garments that consumers find with cheaper prices “are the same that leave them unemployed.”
In that sense, The head of the PXQ consultant stressed that in many cases the prices of the garments are even below the raw materials, So there is at least irregular behavior and did not rule out that these processes include work in precarious conditions.
“Anti Shein Law”, French model
As he could know Scope of business sources, The initial idea of creating a project started from the Argentine Industrial Chamber of clothing (CIAI)although the call will be open to the actors of the entire political and productive arch. The immediate reference is a regulation that the French Parliament sanctioned in June of this year.
France’s law includes: Progressive ecological rates per garment sold by companies of Ultra Fast Fashion; the prohibition of Fashion advertising ultra -grantedboth in traditional media and in social networks and sanctions for the breach of the rest of the European environmental norms.
In the Argentine case, The combo would also include other points: “They should pay tariffs and taxes for the benefits they have to sell in our country,” said the source consulted.
More reactions
In Latin America, reactions are varied but almost all countries took note of the phenomenon. Mexico increased tariffs on small packages from 19% to 33.5% and from the industrial portfolio did not rule out new rises for products that have local manufacturing.
Another example is the case of Ecuador that since June charges a rate of US $20 per package. Even in Chile, which had an exemption from the value added tax, they will have to pay an aliquot of 19% as of October. Uruguay and Colombia also enlist measures in that aspect.
And Argentina? The government is convinced that it has to accelerate the deregulator, The productive sectors and even the Argentine industrial union light alarm lights. And Argentina airports had to accelerate the construction of a new deposit in Ezeiza to store more packages.
Source: Ambito
