What execs still didn’t like to admit, particularly at a politically sensitive time in bilateral trade relations, was that 49 percent of the top ten thousand largest sellers on Amazon were based in China, according to Marketplace Pulse, a research firm that monitors the site. In April 2020, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative listed Amazon sites in five countries as “notorious markets” with dangerous levels of counterfeit and pirated products. Amazon called the report a “purely political act” and part of a vendetta by the administration of Donald Trump.
