Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
Etsy is tightening cross-border rules: non-US sellers shipping to American buyers must move to Delivered Duty Paid and build tariff costs into listing prices, with a pilot tariff calculator rolling out in the listing editor (announced June 9). Separately, Etsy's Regulatory Operat…
TikTok Shop reportedly cut affiliate commission caps across major categories on June 22, with beauty, supplements, and home goods hit hardest — creator payouts moving from roughly 20% toward 10–15%, with no transition window. Creator-led brands that modeled their economics on 20%…
TikTok Shop reported its 2026 Mexico Hot Sale results: platform-wide GMV grew more than 8x year-over-year, with live-stream commerce cited as the core growth driver. Seller insight: Mexico is becoming a live-commerce growth market just as it co-hosts the 2026 World Cup — a rare d…
TikTok upgraded its content-marketing and AI creative tooling, adding a new AI search function in Content Suite and expanding its Symphony generative-AI suite — aimed at helping brands, creators, and agencies improve content discovery, production, and delivery. Seller insight : T…
TikTok Shop reportedly cut affiliate commission caps across several large US categories — beauty, supplements and home goods seeing the deepest reductions — effective June 22 with no transition window, pushing payouts that sat near 20% down toward 10–15%. The standard US marketpl…
