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. “
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 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 US warehouse portfolio for years to reduce shipping times. Last year, the Biden administration also began to criticize the exemption of Minimis, with Chinese chargers feeling a transparent replacement in mood.
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 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 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. Or, you can rack up prices.
Temu has already increased costs last week.
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 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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