By Ramishah Maruf, CNN
New York (CNN) – Hours after a key exemption from US costs expired on Friday, the Chinese electronic commerce site Temu announced that it reviewed its shipping model, sending all US sales of US sales.
“All sales in the United States are now controlled through local distributors, with orders full of the interior of the country,” said Temu spokesman on Friday. “Temu has actively recruited American distributors to succeed on the platform. “
Change is a primary replacement for the platform. Temu, and other Chinese electronic commerce sites such as Shein and Aliexpress, in the past they had used exemption minimis, as we know, to flood the United States of products at ultra basic costs. And while the president of the United States, Donald Trump, says he needs his new costs to assist production to the United States, Temu resolution shows how giant corporations can escape this call and see other tactics.
The minimis failure allowed the goods of the goods to value $ 800 or less enter the United States as a franchise of rights, inspections of jumps and long documents. Chinese electronic commerce sites have undoubtedly taken the maximum merit of the exemption, flooding the US market with ultra lobes. But with Trump applying punishment costs for all Chinese imports, millions of Americans who have become dependent on these sites can locate those less affordable assets.
The vast majority of Shein and Temu products are manufactured in China and matter to the United States, so costs are so cheap.
The new jargon of the Temu corporations would possibly seem to be in Trump alley. But it is not because a product is sent to consumers of a “local warehouse” that is manufactured in the United States.
Sites like Temu and Shein have been building their portfolio of American warehouses for years to reduce shipping times. Last year, the Biden administration also began to criticize the exemption of Minimis, the Chinese sender feeling a transparent replacement of the atmosphere.
Shein started buying products, bulk shipping in American stores last year, said Chris Tang, a global control professor at the University of California origin at Los Angeles.
Bloomberg reported in February that Temu had to check its Chinese source chain, asking supplier factories to send bulk parts to US stores. When those articles are exhausted, it is not transparent if they will remain exhausted for US consumers, or if the new pieces will be the subject of the costs Trump has put in China.
At the moment, this means that the products produced are reaching the steps of the Americans through US distributors. Temu does not publicly list its manufacturer members.
Tang said Friday that if there was scarcity, Temu has few options. The company can reorganize its products, which would charge time and money. He can start offering “substitutes” or recommendations for similar products in stock.
Temu to start expanding safe costs last week. But the company in a press release refuted that they are higher costs.
“Temu Costs for US consumers without changes as the platform goes to a local realization model,” the company said in a press release.
Temu says in his that there are no import prices or additional prices in the delivery of pieces bought in local warehouses. In social networks, users say that the pieces are already exhausted.
A Reddit user said Friday, around 60 of the items in his basket were not available.
You do not have some articles TEMU locally, he told another user, writing that his virtual cart of more than three hundred articles has decreased in pairs. In addition to this, the user said that more prices had been implemented unless a “local order” totals at least $ 30.
“Temu left!” What I saw today convinced me absolutely! “They wrote. ” Local vendors, despite the acquisition of safe articles in bulk progress, do not have all those pieces that interested me. “
Elisabeth Buchwald of CNN contributed to this report.
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