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The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers has been drawing public attention to the problem of unequal conditions of competition between e-commerce platforms operating in Poland for a long time. In light of the increasing significance of online trade resulting from general trends and additionally reinforced by the coronavirus pandemic, the gap between the operating conditions of Polish and Chinese platforms is becoming ever more evident. Both the extensive export subsidisation system and unfair practices applied regularly by Asian platforms (underestimating the declared value of shipments, marking shipments as “gifts”, and ultimately marking parcel shipments as letters) enable them to offer goods at very low prices…