Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
US online sales during Amazon's Prime Day 2026 (June 23–26) are forecast to hit $26.3 billion, up 9% YoY and a record — the earliest June Prime Day since 2021, with spending expected to concentrate heavily into the four-day window. Seller insight : Prime Day pulls the week's disc…
US ports are forecast to handle 2.25M TEU in June, up 14.3% YoY, as retailers frontload ahead of expected July tariff moves (NRF/Hackett Global Port Tracker). The bump is borrowed demand: NRF projects volumes fall below 2025 levels for the rest of the year — July 2.19M TEU (-8.4%…
Drewry's World Container Index rose 12% to $3,969 per 40ft on June 18 — its highest in 18 months — led by transpacific and Asia–Europe lanes. Shanghai–New York jumped 15% to $6,769 and Shanghai–Los Angeles 10% to $5,142. Carriers cite peak season plus cargo frontloading ahead of…
At its June 10 Payments Forum, Visa said it will let AI agents complete purchases inside ChatGPT using tokenized Visa credentials, with shopper-set spending caps, merchant restrictions and approval rules, while Visa handles fraud, chargebacks and refunds (Axios, June 10; Digital…
Marketplace Pulse's first read on nearly 100,000 US TikTok Shop sellers finds the platform more top-heavy than Amazon: the top 1% (fewer than 900 sellers) drive 60% of tracked US GMV, and the top 0.1% — fewer than 90 sellers, each averaging over $100M in lifetime sales — take mor…
