France has threatened to ban Shein from accessing the country's market if the Chinese retailer ever resumed selling "childlike" sex dolls.

The warning, which came just days before Shein was due to open a store in Paris, followed France's anti-fraud unit reporting on Saturday that the company was selling dolls of a likely "child pornography nature".

Shortly after the fraud watchdog's statement, Shein announced that the dolls had been withdrawn from its platform and that it had launched an internal inquiry.

On Monday, France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure warned he would move to ban the company from the French market if the items returned online.

"If such conduct is repeated, we would be within our legal right to stop Shein's access to the French market," Mr Lescure told BFM TV.

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