Daily intel for cross-border sellers β products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
Sellers must hit 99% valid tracking, 90% on-time delivery, <2% cancellation, 95% response rate, <2% negative feedback started April. GSH insight: If you're cross-listing from Amazon, your historical performance does not transfer β this is a clean-slate scorecard.
Demonstrable, no-damage hair styling tool. Trending hard against the 2026 "Reali-TEA" aesthetic that punishes overproduced ads. Insight: Source through 1688 at $1.50-2.50/unit, sell at $14-19. Lead with raw, unedited UGC β polished demos are converting worse than imperfect ones iβ¦
Adds roughly $0.17 per unit average in the US per Supply Chain Dive. Extends to Buy with Prime and Multi-Channel Fulfillment in the US/Canada starting May 2. Insight: If your FBA SKUs run on <20% margin, recalculate today. Larger/heavier units get hit harder than the average.
Home Products dropped from 15% β 8% for items under Β£20/β¬20; Pet items 15% β 5% under Β£10/β¬10; Grocery and vitamins 8% β 5% (BoF, Reuters). Insightt: Margin restored on the under-Β£20 SKU range that Amazon EU sellers had been bleeding to Shein/Temu. Re-run your EU pricing models ββ¦
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 thβ¦