Trump and Temu of US Recipients Because Trump Closes Tax Space

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Online retailers Temu and Shein, once fast user growth, after applying the steep tariffs from President Donald Trump and closed a tax cavity that allows the opponents to upside down.

Temu’s monthly active users, engagement measure, market exploration company Sensor Tower data, 51 percent in the United States, 40.2mn, 40.2 mln.

Number of buyers using ShinThe app narrated in the same period at the same time. According to the sensor tower, the fast-fashioned retailer saw that monthly active users decreased by 12 percent.

Shein and Temu made a new model pioneer e-commerce This broke the retail industry in the Western world in the last five years.

Both have been saved from imported fees by sending individual packages to consumers’ homes directly from China. Cheap prices and a social media advertisement Blitz, Hein and Temu to collect a wide range of customer base in months.

Shein tried to capitalize the growth with the stock float, but he struggled to gain the support of regulators for a list in the United States and England.

Reuters said he planned to file for an IPO in Hong Kong last week. Shein refused to comment on list plans or work performance.

On May 2, Trump, known as “De Minimis”, known as “De Minimis”, “De Minimis” from China and Hong Kong canceled low value goods.

The President replaced the freedom to allow less than $ 800 to make the United States duty-free and replaced it with 90 percent of tariff. This was later reduced to 30 percent, as part of a wider increase in trade tension with China.

Temu changes after Trump’s policy overhauled the work model In the US. Instead of sending products from factories from the factories, instead of sending products in the United States, the order began to send orders.

The use of Temu and Shein can also be linked to the reduction in the supply of each company’s advertising. Over the past three months, the United States’s advertising costs decreased by 87 percent, and according to Sensor Tower, Sheen fell 69 percent compared to the same period.

Last year, they took place in the United States as 10 and 11th largest digital advertising – now they were now on the outskirts of the first 60th.

The environment in the United States became more enemies, the attention of Temu and Shein focused on Europe.

The number of people using Temu in June, 76 percent in France, 76 percent in Spain and 64 percent in Germany, compared to Sensor Tower. Meanwhile, Seiin’s monthly active users increased by 13 percent, England, Germany and France by 20 percent.

But the growth in Europe may be at risk as the EU Plans to pay 2 Euros and the UK government in small packages included in the block thinking about the end Freedom of its own import duty.

Temu refused to comment on the spending of work sizes or advertising, but in the spotlight was “Working with merchants in the regions.”

“Since the full-time opening our marketplace in more than 20 markets, we have helped them to expand and develop their work.”