3 pants are not qualified, and ZARA affiliates will receive another fine

According to the website of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision, ZARA Affiliated Company Sala Garment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was fined about 24,200 yuan by the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau and confiscated about 0.86 million yuan of illegal gains. The type of violation is "production and sale of unqualified products passing off as qualified products".

Screenshot source: Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision website

According to the administrative penalty decision, after investigation, the trousers with the numbers of 8574/415/800, 8281/487/800, and 9252/405/800 sold by the parties were inspected by the Shanghai Institute of Quality Supervision and Inspection Technology according to the product explicit standard FZ/T 81007-2012 "Single and Clip Clothing", and the friction-resistant color fastness/(grade) items did not meet the standard requirements and were judged to be unqualified. It is now ascertained that from April to May 2021, the parties purchased a total of 64 pairs of pants that were unqualified for the above three models, all of which have been sold and have no inventory. The total value of the above-mentioned products is 16136 yuan, and the illegal income is 8593.03 yuan.

According to the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision, the parties' sale of clothing with unqualified products passing off as qualified products violated the provisions of Article 39 of the Product Quality Law of the People's Republic of China, and after comprehensive consideration of the number and duration of violations of the parties and their active cooperation with the administrative organs in investigation and rectification, according to the regulations, the administrative penalties imposed on the parties were as follows: First, ordered to stop selling clothing with unqualified products passing off as qualified products The second is to impose a fine of 24,204 yuan for 1.5 times the value of the illegal sale of products; the third is to confiscate the illegal gains of 8593.03 yuan. The total amount of fines and forfeitures was 32797.03 yuan.

According to the data of Tianyancha APP, Sala Garment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established on June 6, 2014. ZARA HOLDING B.V. holds 100% of its shares.

It is worth mentioning that not long ago, another affiliate of ZARA, Aites Asia Pacific Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., was also fined more than 170,000 yuan for the above three pants. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)