Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
1 unit/5 sec on TikTok Shop UK. The peel-off lip stain category is converting at a velocity rarely seen on UK TikTok Shop, with sister SKU Lip Liner Stay-N-Peel passing $46M+ lifetime GMV (FindNiche/EchoTik). Average sell price sits in the £10–£18 band, an unusually wide margin f…
Direct Southeast Asia competitor expanding the same education-community model GSH uses, but anchored in Manila (Manila Times wire, April 28). Insight: SEA secondary-market expansion is contested ground now. GSH's edge is China sourcing depth — Smart Sellers's edge is English-firs…
Street consensus: $177.2B revenue, +13% YoY. Andy Jassy already disclosed Rufus AI drove $12B in incremental salesin 2025. Why it matters: AI shopping assistant attribution numbers will set the bar for how Shopify, TikTok Shop, and Walmart talk about their own AI commerce stacks.…
Temu is now showing local-warehouse SKUs on its bestseller pages and has explicitly stated it intends to sell only goods from local merchants in the US for the foreseeable future (Marketplace Pulse, BoF). Shein US sales are down 23% for the same week. Both have shifted ad spend o…
Started from July 1, 2026 (Council of the EU, Dec 2025; restated by EU Taxation & Customs Union). Covers 93% of e-commerce flows into the EU via the IOSS registration. This is the interim measure before the full elimination of the €150 threshold and the Customs Data Hub launc…
