Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
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…
Amazon has added a new Notable Arrivals new-product tag to US frontend search results, assigned automatically by Amazon's AI algorithm with no manual application channel. This represents a structural shift in how new SKU launches gain visibility — historically dependent on either…
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…
A Chinese-style forged kitchen knife from Gifted Grace shop is climbing fast in TikTok Shop US's kitchen knives category. Past 28 days: 5,000+ units sold at roughly $15 ASP for ~$78K GMV. Demo videos lean into "hand-forged + traditional Chinese cooking technique" framing — a craf…
JD.com is reportedly considering a takeover bid for The Very Group — the 100-year-old UK retail group — at a valuation of approximately £2 billion (~¥18.3B RMB), per international media reports. The Very Group operates Very.co.uk and Littlewoods, with a distribution footprint ser…
