QUESTION THREE [40] Read the article below and answer the questions that follow: What France's crackdown on Shein and Temu means for global ultra-fast fashion France's fast fashion bill takes aim at retail behemoths lawmakers argue damage the environment, hurt the economy and feed impulse buyers, France's lower house of parliament unanimously approved a \"kill bill* on 14 March that targets fast fashion and ultra-fast fashion sold by online retail giants such as Shein and Temu. The measure is a move to offset the fast fashion industry's environmental impact by banning the advertising of certain ultra-fast-fashion companies and penalising them with annually increasing increments of up to 10 euros (8.54 or $10.92) per article of clothing by 2030. The bill would also mandate that fast fashion retailers include an item's reuse, repair, recycling and environmental impact near the product's price. What is fast fashion? Fast fashion is widely considered low-quality apparel. It is produced rapidly to follow current trends in the industry and sold at rock-bottom prices. Fast fashion allows cost-conscious consumers to regularly update and expand their wardrobes with knockoff en vogue styles, and although the monetary cost is low, experts say both textile factory workers and the earth's environment are paying the hefty price. \"It's important when the price conversation comes up for people to realize that the price of fast fashion is being kept artificially low,\" said Emily Stochl, the vice president of advocacy and community engagement at Remake, a sustainable fashion nonprofit organisation. "It's essentially being subsidized by the fact that these companies are nolt paying their workers adequately. So this idea that [fast fashion pricing] is the bar for clothing that consumers have come to expect it's an artificial construction.\" Stochl points to previous advertising bans such as cigarette advertisements in the US in the 1970s and the UK in the early aughts, likening the addictive nature of tobacco to the impact fast fashion has had on consumers. France's new bill uses similar language, stating, \"This evolution of the apparel sector towards ephemeral fashion, combining increased volumes and low prices, is influencing consumer buying habits by creating buying impulses and a constant need for renewal, which is not without environmental, social and economic consequences.\" Shein, Temu and the impact of new policies Shein, a fast fashion behemoth founded in China and headquartered in Singapore, argued in a statement to the BBC that the bill's impact will "worsen the purchasing power of French consumers, at a time when they are already feeling the impact of the cost-of-living crisis.\" Kathleen Talbot, chief sustainability officer and vice president of operations at Reformation, an eco- friendly brand favored by the likes of Taylor Swift, Monica Lewinsky and Sydney Sweeney, says that ultra-fast fashion brands represent the "insane excess" the fashion industry is seeing in terms of speed and volume. Talbot adds that using regulation as a vehicle to drive change may be the only option, as slowing overconsumption seems unlikely in a market with a piping-hot demand that isn't simmering down. How do we start to create incentives for good actors or on the flip side, tax bad actors to force brands to pay for negative externalities? Kathleen Talbot \"What's interesting about the proposed French bill and regulations like the New York Fashion Act is they do have similar aims," says Talbol. "We're asking these big questions around how we account for the negative impacts of fashion on people and the planet. How do we start to create incentives for good actors or on the flip side, tax bad actors - to force brands to pay for negative externalities? | wish it was easier to do that. What we're seeing are these really location-specific, siloed efforts.\" "But | think it's a start\