By Ramishah Maruf, CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) — Hours after Akey’s exemption from U. S. price lists has been released. U. S. 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. “
The replacement is a primary replacement for the platform. Temu, and other Chinese e-commerce sites like Shein and AliExpress, had in the past used the de minimis exemption, as is known, to flood the United States with ultra-low goods. And while U. S. President Donald Trump says he needs his new price lists for U. S. production to grow. In the U. S. , TEMU’s resolution shows how large corporations can escape that to request and verify other tactics.
De Minimis’s lagofol allowed shipments of goods valued at $800 or less to enter the U. S. duty-free. U. S. , skipping lengthy inspections and documents. less affordable reasonable goods.
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 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 U. S. warehouses. U. S. For years to decrease shipping times. Last year, the Biden administration also began criticizing the de minimis exemption, with Chinese shippers feeling a transparent replacement in the mood.
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 to review its Chinese supply chain, asking supplier factories to ship parts in bulk to U. S. warehouses. When those items are out of stock, it’s not transparent whether they’ll remain out of stock for American consumers, or whether the new pieces will be the subject of the costs Trump has put on China.
For now, this means that foreign-made products are coming to Americans’ doorsteps through American distributors. Temu publicly lists its production partners.
Tang said on Friday that if there is a shortage, Temu has few options. The corporation can renew its products, which would take time and money. You can start providing “substitutes” or recommendations for similar products in stocks, or, you can rack up prices.
Temu has already increased costs last week.
Temu says in theirs that there are no import prices or additional prices on the delivery of 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 parts are not available locally, another user noted, writing that his virtual cart of more than three hundred pieces has been reduced to two. At the most sensible of that, the user said that additional fees were implemented unless a “local order” totals 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. “
Elisabeth Buchwald of CNN contributed to this report.
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