(Version No.: 20190726)
Overview
To maintain and protect Aliexpress.com as a trustworthy platform in the e-commerce industry, enforcement actions such as issuing serious warning, limiting access rights, delisting all online items, terminating membership, etc. will be taken against parties which display items that violate the platform’s policies, including product posting related policies.
Prohibited and controlled information list
Registered members of the platform shall not post or sell any item that is restricted or prohibited by any federal, state or local law in any country or jurisdiction.
We have listed some categories of prohibited or restricted items. However, this list is not exhaustive; you, as the seller, are responsible for ensuring that you are not posting an item that is prohibited by law in any jurisdiction.
There may also be products that are restricted by national laws, or are restricted for cross-border sales. Please refer to the relevant national laws and any product prohibition or restriction notices published by the platform from time to time.
This list applies to you if you are a seller that is incorporated outside of mainland China. You shall also comply with all other relevant rules and user terms and conditions of the platform.
For details of how the penalty point accumulation system work, please see the relevant section at the bottom of this document.
(1) ILLICIT DRUGS, PRECURSORS AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA |
Penalty Points |
1. Narcotics, tranquilizers, psychotropic drugs, natural drugs, synthetic drugs, and List 1 precursor chemicals |
48 |
2. List 2 precursor chemicals and steroids |
6 |
3. List 3 precursor chemicals |
2 |
4. Drug paraphernalia (drug-taking tools, injection tools and accessories, eg. bongs, ice pipes) |
2 |
5. Packaging materials which may be utilized to contain controlled substances;Materials conducive to smuggling, storing, trafficking, transporting or producing illicit drugs (eg. marijuana grow lights) |
1 |
6. Publications and other media providing information related to the production of illicit drugs |
1 |
(2) HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES |
|
1. Explosives |
48 |
2. Explosive and flammable chemicals |
6 |
3. Radioactive substances |
6 |
4. Toxic chemicals |
6 |
5. Poisonous chemicals |
6 |
6. Ozone depleting substances |
1 |
7. Asbestos and products containing asbestos |
1 |
8. Fireworks, firecrackers and accessories |
0.5 |
(3) FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION |
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1. Firearms, munitions, military ordnance and heavy weapons |
48 |
2. Replica firearms (eg. air guns, BB guns, paintball guns), firearm accessories |
6 |
3. Items which otherwise resemble or may be mistaken for weapons (eg. alarm clocks resembling bombs) |
2 |
(4) RESTRICTED WEAPONS |
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1. Products used for incapacitating others |
6 |
2. Restricted knives |
6 |
3. Restricted products that seriously endangers personal safety |
6 |
4. Restricted products that endangers personal safety |
6 |
5. Crossbows |
0.5 |
(5) GOVERNMENT, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY ISSUED ITEMS |
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1. Police uniforms, police insignia and police vehicles |
2 |
2. Restricted police equipment |
0.5 |
(6) MEDICAL DRUGS |
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1. Prescription drugs |
6 |
2. Special medicines (eg. stimulants, blood products) |
6 |
3. Regulated poisonous herbal medicines |
2 |
4. Orally administered sexual enhancement supplements |
2 |
5. Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs |
2 |
(7) MEDICAL DEVICES |
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1. Medical consultation and services |
6 |
2. Restricted medical devices |
0.5 |
(8) ADULT AND OBSCENE MATERIALS |
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1. Items depicting or suggestive of bestiality, rape sex, incest or sex with graphic violence or degradation; any items depicting or suggestive of sex involving minors |
48 |
2. Obscene publications and media, adult services, and accounts and invitation codes for adult websites |
48 |
3. Images depicting explicit nudity and explicit obscene materials |
2 |
4. Used underwear |
0.5 |
5. Information containing profane or vulgar language |
0 |
(9) CIRCUMVENTION DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT USED FOR ILLICT PURPOSES |
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1. Software and devices for bugging or theft of private or confidential information |
6 |
2. Devices designed to intentionally block, jam or interfere with authorized radio communications (eg. signal jammers) |
6 |
3. Software designed for fraudulent use or other illegal practices |
2 |
4. Devices used for purposes such as illegal image recording, sound recording and evidence collection |
2 |
5. Equipmen used for illegal purposes (eg. bank card replicators) |
2 |
6. Descramblers and other items that can be used to gain unauthorized access to television programming, internet access, telephone data or other protected, restricted, or premium services |
2 |
(10) ILLEGAL SERVICES |
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1. Provision of official government-issued identification documents (eg. birth certificates, driving licenses, passports, visas); Equipment used for the production of identification documents |
48 |
2. Receipts, military medals and other non-transferable documents |
48 |
3. Bank card hologram and related product; Services relate to money laundering; |
48 |
4. Personal information, proprietary business data, and services that infringe on personal privacy (eg. personal phone locating, phone list checking and bank account checking services) |
2 |
5. Legal consulting services and services facilitating gaming and acquisition of fraudulent educational certification |
2 |
6. Debt collection and travel facilitation services |
0.5 |
(11) COLLECTIONS, ARTIFACTS AND PRECIOUS METALS |
|
1. Currency, stocks, bonds and other financial instruments; materials and equipment used for the manufacture of the aforementioned financial products (eg. bank card holograms, currency printing presses) |
48 |
2. Virtual currencies |
6 |
3. Gold, silver and other precious metals |
2 |
4. Nationally protected artifacts |
2 |
(12) HUMAN PARTS, HUMAN REMAINS AND PROTECTED FLORA AND FAUNA |
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1. Human bodies, body parts and remains |
48 |
2. Protected fauna and parts |
2 |
3. Products made from cats, dogs, bears, sharks and marine mammals; equipmet used for processing the aforementioned products |
2 |
4. Protected flora and parts |
1 |
(13) MATERIALS DETRIMENTAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY |
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1. Materials or information detrimental to national security or public order |
48 |
2. Materials or information supporting or advocating infringement of national sovereignty or terrorist organizations |
48 |
3. Materials or information supporting or advocating discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, sex or religion; materials or information advocating, promoting or otherwise supporting fascism, Nazism and other extreme ideologies |
2 |
4. Other materials or information containing offensive content |
0 |
(14) TOBACCO AND RELATED PRODUCTS |
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1. Cigarettes and other tobacco products |
6 |
2. Liquids for use in electronic cigarettes |
6 |
3. Electronic cigarette and key components |
0.5 |
4. Materials for the production of cigarettes (applicable to PRC-based members only) |
0.5 |
5. Images of tobacco related products (eg. tobacco liquids) |
1 |
(15) GAMBLING EQUIPMENT |
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1. Information pertaining to, or facilitating, online gambling |
2 |
2. Gambling and gaming equipment (eg. slot machines) |
2 |
(16) SANCTIONED AND OTHERWISE PROHIBITED ITEMS |
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1. Products prohibited by laws, regulations, sanctions and trade restrictions |
1 |
2. Other sanction-related products |
1 |
(17) SUBSTANDARD AND DANGEROUS GOODS |
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1. Products recalled by the manufacturer or regulatory authorities due to quality issues |
2 |
2. High risk and potentially dangerous products |
1 |
(18) OTHER GOODS RESTRICTED DUE TO LOCAL LAWS |
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1. Products restricted by laws and regulations of certain countries |
Enforcement actions such as issuing penalty points, delisting items, etc. |
2. Products restricted due to commodity specifications |
Enforcement actions such as issuing penalty points, delisting items, etc. |