Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
Temu is rolling its Y2 operating model across Europe ahead of the EU's July 1 €3 small-parcel duty. Tax and customs responsibility shifts from Temu to the seller; merchants ship from China only after orders confirm. So what : Sub-€10 SKUs flip to negative unit economics under Y2…
1688 launched a free AI sourcing agent AlphaShop (Ao Xia) that takes a product image or competitor link and returns market data plus matched factories. Aimed squarely at small cross-border sellers who don't have a sourcing agent on retainer. So what: Useful for the first-pass sou…
Third-party sellers posted strong growth in US, Europe, and Brazil per the earnings call transcript (The Motley Fool, April 29). GSH insight: Europe and Brazil are the rare markets where Amazon's variable cost structure improved this quarter. If you've been Amazon-US-only, the ma…
Home Products dropped from 15% → 8% for items under £20/€20; Pet items 15% → 5% under £10/€10; Grocery and vitamins 8% → 5% (BoF, Reuters). Insightt: Margin restored on the under-£20 SKU range that Amazon EU sellers had been bleeding to Shein/Temu. Re-run your EU pricing models —…
Algorithm now prioritizes locally-fulfilled listings; merchants shipping to Temu's US DCs get placement boost (Supply Chain Dive, 4seller). Insight: Temu without local stock is the lower tier. If you're listed there and still ship from China, expect impressions to keep falling th…
