Hours after the exemption of the important US tariff on Friday (2), the Chinese e -commerce platform TEMU announced hours after its shipping model, which sent all American sales through sellers in the United States.
A Temu spokesman said in a statement on Friday morning (2). “Timo has recruited American sales representatives actively to join the platform.”
Change is a big step to the platform. TEMU – and other Chinese courage sites such as Shein and Aliexpress – were used already minimal exemption, as it was known, to dump the United States with price pricing products. Although US President Donald Trump says he wants to help his new prices restore industry to the United States, Timo’s initiative shows how major companies can flip this demand and experience other tactics.
The minimum vessels of 800 dollars to or less allowed the income of the United States, and often avoiding searches and long bureaucracies. Perhaps Chinese e -commerce sites have led to the maximum exemption, which led to the dumping of the American market with very low -cost products. But with Trump imposing punitive definitions on all Chinese imports, millions of Americans who relied on these sites come to find these cheaper products more expensive.
The vast majority of Shein and Temu products are manufactured in China and are imported directly to the United States, which is why prices are very cheap.
TEMU’s new trade terminology can look like something that suits Trump. But just to send the product to a “local warehouse” customer, it does not mean that it is manufactured in the United States.
Sites like TEMU and Shein expand their warehouse portfolio in the United States for years to reduce delivery times. Last year, the Biden government also began to criticize the minimum exemption, as Chinese transport companies realize a clear change in the situation.
Sheen started storing products and sending them in large quantities to warehouses in the United States last year, before CNN Chris Tang, professor of global supply chain management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Bloomberg News Agency has published in February that TEMPU has started reformulating its supply chain in China, and it is asking the suppliers factories to send large materials to warehouses in the United States. When these elements end, it is not known whether they will remain exhausted for American consumers or if the new elements are subject to the rates that Trump imposed in China.
Currently, this means that the products manufactured abroad come to the doors of Americans through American distributors. Tempu does not include its manufacturing partners.
Tang said on Friday (2) that if there is a scarcity, TEMU will have a few options. The company can rearrange its products, which will cost time and money. The site can start providing “alternatives”, or recommendations of similar products in the stock. Or it can increase prices.
Fear has already started to increase prices last week.
Customers start buying
TEMU informs its website that there are no import fees or additional costs on delivering the elements purchased in local warehouses. On social networks, users claim that items are already out of stock.
A Reddit user noticed that on Friday, about 60 elements in the shopping cart were not suddenly available.
Some TEMU elements are not available locally, and noticed another user, he wrote that the digital shopping cart with more than 300 elements has decreased to only two. In addition, the user stated that an additional fee has been applied less than a “local request” of at least $ 30.
“Fear has disappeared! What I saw today is completely convinced me!” They wrote. “It is clear that they buy some elements in advance and large quantities, they do not have all these elements that concern me.”
Elizabeth Puchawald from CNN contributed in this report.
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