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Temu and Shein Raised Prices, Removed Products as Trump’s China Tariffs Went Into Effect
Sellers and shoppers on the two sites say they saw items disappear and prices go up after President Donald Trump implemented tariffs on Chinese imports.
Temu and Shein, the two biggest Chinese-owned ecommerce platforms that operate in the United States, have started raising prices and temporarily unlisting some products on their websites in response to new tariffs on Chinese imports announced by President Donald Trump, according to both shoppers and sellers who spoke to WIRED. “These companies have perfected this modern miracle, which is shipping from China to the US in a very consistent and reliable fashion,” says Juozas Kaziukėnas, founder of the ecommerce intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse. But not all of Temu and Shein’s products and services are impacted, since both companies have begun increasingly storing goods in American warehouses over the past several years to get orders to customers even faster.
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