By Ramishah Maruf, CNN
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hours after the U. S. tariff waiver was waived by the U. S. 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 U. S. U. S. They are now dealt with through local distributors, with orders filled from the domestic country,” a TEMU spokesperson said on a Friday. “TEMU has been actively recruiting U. S. distributors to sign up for 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, although the president of the United States, Donald Trump, says that he needs his new price lists so that US production, Temu resolution shows the way in which large corporations can escape that to request and verify 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.
Temu’s new corporate jargon would possibly seem to be in Trump’s alley, but just because a product is sent to consumers of a “local warehouse” does not mean that it is 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 began buying products, shipping in bulk at U. S. warehouses last year, said Chris Tang, a professor of global chain of origin control at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bloomberg reported in February that Temu had begun reviewing its Chinese supply chain, requiring supplier factories to ship bulk parts to U. S. warehouses. U. S.
For now, this means that foreign-made products are coming to Americans’ doorsteps through American distributors. Temu publicly lists its production partners.
Tang said Friday that if there is shortage, Temu has few options. The corporate can renew its products, which would charge time and money. You can start providing “substitutes” or recommendations for similar products in shares or, you can accumulate prices.
Temu has already increased costs last week.
Temu says that there are no import rates or additional rates in delivery for pieces bought in local warehouses. In social networks, users say that the pieces are already exhausted.
One Reddit user noted that on Friday, about 60 of the parts in his cart were unavailable.
You do not have some pieces of TEMU locally, said another user, writing that its virtual cart of more than three hundred pieces has been reduced to two. In the most sensible of that, the user said that additional rates were implemented unless a “local order” total at least $ 30.
“Temu left!” What I saw today absolutely convinced me!”They wrote. ” Local vendors, despite acquiring safe items in advance in bulk, don’t have all those parts that interested me. “
CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald contributed to this report.
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