Temu stops deliveries from China to the USA

On Friday night (local time), an exemption for duty-free imports to the USA that had been in place since 2016 expired. Since then, shipments with a value of less than 800 US dollars have also been subject to full customs duty. This particularly affects Chinese shippers such as Shein and Temu, who send large numbers of parcels to the USA. According to CNN, a total of 1.36 million shipments of goods from China were subject to duty in the last tax year.

Last week, Temu had already increased its prices for orders to the USA by 40 to 100 percent. Now, according to a media report, the company is going a big step further: according to the US broadcaster CNBC, the company is stopping all shipments from China to the USA. This is what a Temu spokesperson told the broadcaster. Instead, the majority of orders will now be processed "from the country itself". According to the report, Temu had already started to set up several large warehouses in the United States last year.

Temu wants more US suppliers on its platform

However, these apparently do not have all the products that can be found on Temu's website and apps. According to CNBC, many of them are listed as no longer available. According to its spokesperson, Temu wants to solve this by attracting more US suppliers to offer their goods on the platform.

The US tariffs, which can amount to up to 145 percent in the case of goods from China, have also caused upheaval for other companies in the logistics sector in recent weeks. DHL, for example, announced that it would no longer deliver shipments over 800 US dollars to private customers in the USA – regardless of the country they come from. However, as the company told the German Press Agency last Monday, there had been "constructive talks with the US customs authorities and other authorities", so that deliveries had been resumed. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

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