Search engines like Google are expected to remove the, which gives cheap, more commonly Chinese, products from its effects in the coming days.
App outlets no longer offer the Wish app.
But the website operated through San Francisco-based Company ContextLogic will be available to consumers with the correct Internet address.
“There is no explanation as to why we tolerate online what we do not conform to in physical stores,” Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told French newspaper Le Parisien.
The sanctions come after French anti-fraud firm DGCCRF analyzed 140 sold on Wish and found that a large majority “don’t comply. “
90% of electronic parts tested were rated “unsafe”, as were 62% of costume jewelery and 45% of toys.
The anti-fraud firm noted that even after informing Wish of those errors and the online page got rid of the lower-quality items, they reappeared under other names.
The final sanction is expected to last until it complies with French law.
The U. S. startup said it was taking legal action against the measures, which it called “illegal and disproportionate. “
Wish “complies with dgccrf’s take-out requests,” it said in a statement.
Wish, which was created in 2010, says it has about a hundred million active users.
It was indexed on the New York Stock Exchange last December.