Daily intel for cross-border sellers β products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
A no-drill adhesive hook from single-shop seller Jahyshop crossed 13,900+ orders and ~$142K in sales over 28 days in TikTok Shop US home category. Listed since late November 2025 β sustained creator curve, not one-week spike. Demo content leans into "rental-safe / dorm-friendly /β¦
A UK High Court trial that opened May 11 β Shein vs. Temu β could set a precedent on marketplace liability for seller-uploaded product images. Shein accuses Temu of "industrial scale" infringement, alleging Temu reproduced ~2,300 Shein product photographs to promote imitation lisβ¦
Shopify's official changelog confirmed Shop Pay checkout now supports the full set of Shopify Payments local methods, including Bancontact, BLIK, EPS, MobilePay, Multibanco, Przelewy24, Swish, TWINT, and USDC β availability gated by merchant configuration. Seller insight: For DTCβ¦
CBP will require importers to electronically submit Certificate of Compliance data at the time of entry β not after β for all CPSC-regulated consumer products subject to certification, effective July 8, 2026(CPSC; Federal Register 90 FR 1430). Foreign Trade Zone entries get a sepβ¦
FedEx and UPS layered new fuel-surcharge tiers and pound-based surge fees onto international parcel shipments in May 2026. UPS added a $0.32/lb surcharge on US-inbound volume from non-surge-fee origins; FedEx's international export surcharge rose to 38.5% at $4/gallon jet-fuel reβ¦
