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Germany's e-commerce trade association Händlerbund warned that sellers linking free gifts to "5-star reviews" risk legal warnings (Abmahnung) for misleading consumers(via Chinese-language cross-border media)。The practice may breach German unfair-competition rules around incentivi…
The White House signed a June 1 proclamation adjusting Section 232 tariffs on aluminum, steel, and copper, effective June 8 through Dec 31, 2027. Headline rate is 50% on most articles and key derivatives, with a transitional 15% band for metal-intensive industrial and electrical-…
CBP's CAPE refund tool, launched April 20 inside ACE, has now accepted approximately $85B in refund claims and disbursed approximately $20.6B as of late May, across roughly 157,000 CAPE declarations filed by importers (Baker Tilly summary of CBP-published volumes; CBP). Phase 1 c…
USTR initiated the second statutory four-year review of Section 301 China tariffs on May 6, 2026 (Federal Register). For the July 6, 2018 tranche, domestic industries must file petitions to continue the action between May 7 and July 5, 2026; for the August 23, 2018 tranche, the w…
TikTok Shop has rolled out AI Lip-sync Dubbing for shoppable videos, auto-translating creator demos into supported languages with synced mouth movements. Separately, Star Creator badge evaluation moves to a monthly cadence on the 15th starting June 2026 (via SocialBee TikTok upda…
