Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
Austria intends to introduce a €2-per-parcel cross-border tax starting autumn 2026, applicable only to cross-border ecommerce sellers with annual revenue above €100M. The revenue will subsidize basic food tax reductions for domestic consumers — explicitly positioning the policy a…
USTR's Federal Register notice (**91 FR 24636**, published May 6, 2026) opens the comment portal at comments.ustr.gov for industry requests to continue the July 6, 2018, Section 301 action (List 1, $34B trade value, 25% duty) between May 7 and July 5, and for the August 23, 2018,…
Despite February's Supreme Court ruling against IEEPA tariffs and the May 7 CIT strike-down of the Section 122 global surcharge, online merchants are not rolling list prices back (Modern Retail, May 18). Brands are leaning on rapidly adjustable digital and social discount stacks…
ByteDance appeared before the EU's top court to formally request the annulment of TikTok's "gatekeeper" designation under the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) — the regulatory framework that imposes the strictest competition-and-data obligations on large platforms in the EU. TikTok…
TikTok Shop Philippines reports the country's local-seller cohort grew sales +200% in 2025, despite domestic inflationary pressure on consumer disposable income. The platform cites this as evidence that online discovery commerce remains structurally counter-cyclical in SEA emergi…
