By Ramishah Maruf, CNN
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hours after a key exemption from U. S. price lists was released. U. S. Expired on Friday, Chinese e-commerce site Temu announced that it has revised its shipping model, sending all U. S. sales to the U. S. and Canada. U. S. Through U. S. Sellers
“All sales in the United States are now controlled through local distributors, with orders filled from the interior of the country,” TEMU’s spokesperson said in A on Friday. “Temu has actively recruited U. S. distributors to succeed on the platform. “
Replacement 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 the exemption of Minimis, as it is known, to flood the United States with ultra low products. And the president of the United States, Donald Trump, says he needs his new price lists so that production brings production to the United States, TeMU resolution shows how large corporations can escape from that requesting and verifying other ttactics.
The de minimis failure allowed the goods of goods valued at $800 or less to enter the United States as a duty franchise, hop inspections, and long documents. Chinese e-commerce sites have certainly taken maximum credit for the exemption, flooding the U. S. market with ultra-lobe products. But with Trump slapping punishment costs on all Chinese imports, the millions of Americans who have become dependent on those sites may locate those less affordable assets.
The vast majority of Shein and Temu products are made in China and imported into the United States, which is why the costs are so cheap.
TEMU’s new corporate jargon would possibly seem like it’s in Trump alley, but just because a product is shipped to consumers from a “local warehouse” doesn’t mean it’s made 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 stocking goods, shipping in bulk in U. S. warehouses. U. S. As far back as last year, Chris Tang, a professor of global source chain control at the University of California, Los Angeles, has said in the past.
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 Americans’ doorsteps through American distributors. TEMU does not publicly list its manufacturer partners.
Tang said Friday that if there was a shortage, Temu has few options. The company can rearrange its products, which would charge time and money. He may begin to offer “substitutes” or recommendations for similar products in stock.
Temu gave the impression of starting to increase some costs last week. But the corporate in a denial that was increasing costs.
“TEMU costs for U. S. consumers unchanged as the platform transitions to a local realization model,” the company said in a press release.
Temu says there are no import fees or additional fees on delivery for parts purchased from local warehouses. On social media, users say the pieces are already sold out.
One Reddit user noted that on Friday, about 60 of the parts in his cart were unavailable.
Some TEMU items are not available locally, he pointed out to another user, writing that his virtual cart of more than three hundred items has decreased in pairs. In addition to this, the user said that more pricing had been implemented unless a “local order” totals at least $30.
“Temu is gone! What I saw today absolutely convinced me!”They wrote. ” Local vendors, despite buying some parts in advance in bulk, don’t have all those pieces that I’m interested in. “
CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald contributed to this report.
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