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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is lobbying hard to stay off the U.S. Trade Representative's blacklist after coming under renewed pressure this year over suspected counterfeits sold on its shopping platforms.

The Chinese company which owns a warehouse that exploded in Tianjin last week, killing more than 100 people, did not have a license to handle hazardous chemicals until two months before the disaster, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Executive Chairman Jack Ma urged employees to relax about U.S. lawsuits against the firm over possible failure to disclose information to investors, in a letter to staff posted on his official microblog on Friday.