Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
The European Commission on May 28 issued Temu a €200 million fine for failing to "diligently identify, analyse, and assess the systemic risks of illegal products" — the largest fine yet under the Digital Services Act, surpassing X's €120M December 2025 penalty. Mystery-shopping f…
UK retail sales volumes fell 1.3% in April 2026, the biggest monthly drop since May 2025 and worse than the -0.6% economist consensus (ONS, May 22). Automotive fuel led at -10.2%; ex-fuel volumes fell 0.4%, clothing -2.4%, non-food -1.0%. Online sales values dropped 2.3% MoM desp…
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 93.1 in May, down 0.7 from a revised 93.8 in April (Conference Board, release date May 26). The Present Situation Index fell 3.2 points to 121.2 while the Expectations Index ticked up 1.0 to 74.4. The survey ran May 1–19 a…
Freightos Baltic Index for the week ending May 26: transpacific rates jumping after weeks of flat readings. Asia-US West Coast +13%, Asia-US East Coast +14%. Asia-Mediterranean surged +20% to nearly $4,400/FEU, surpassing its March wartime high(Freightos, May 26). Asia-N. Europe…
Russia's Yandex has opened access for all e-commerce sellers to sell through the platform's AI assistant Alice, Yandex search, and the full Yandex ecosystem — making AI-driven product discovery available to the broader Russian-market seller base. Seller insight : This is Russia's…
