By Ramishah Maruf, CNN

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hours after the U. S. tariff waiver was waived by the U. S. U. S. Expired on Friday, Chinese e-commerce site Temu announced that it has revised its shipping model, sending all U. S. sales to the U. S. and Canada. U. S. Through U. S. Sellers

“All sales in the U. S. U. S. They are now dealt with through local distributors, with orders filled from the domestic country,” a TEMU spokesperson said on a Friday. “TEMU has been actively recruiting U. S. distributors to sign up for the platform. “

Replacement is a primary replacement for the platform. Temu, and other Chinese electronic commerce sites such as Shein and Aliexpress, in the past they had used the exemption of Minimis, as it is known, to flood the United States with ultra low products. And the president of the United States, Donald Trump, says he needs his new price lists so that production brings production to the United States, TeMU resolution shows how large corporations can escape from that requesting and verifying other ttactics.

De Minimis’s lagofol allowed shipments of goods valued at $800 or less to enter the U. S. duty-free. U. S. , skipping lengthy inspections and documents. less affordable reasonable goods.

The vast majority of Shein and Temu products are made in China and imported into the United States, which is why the costs are so cheap.

TEMU’s new corporate jargon would possibly seem like it’s in Trump alley, but just because a product is shipped to consumers from a “local warehouse” doesn’t mean it’s made in the United States.

Sites like Temu and Shein have been building their portfolio of U. S. warehouses for years to decrease shipping times. Last year, the Biden administration also began criticizing the de minimis exemption, the Chinese sender feeling a transparent replacement of the atmosphere.

Shein started stocking goods, shipping in bulk in U. S. warehouses. U. S. As far back as last year, Chris Tang, a professor of global source chain control at the University of California, Los Angeles, has said in the past.

Bloomberg reported in February that Temu had to check its Chinese source chain, asking supplier factories to send bulk parts to US stores. When those articles are exhausted, it is not transparent if they will remain exhausted for US consumers, or if the new pieces will be the subject of the costs Trump has put in China.

For now, this means that foreign manufacturing products are reaching the doors of Americans through US distributors. Temu publicly lists its production partners.

Tang said on Friday that if there is a shortage, Temu has few options. The corporation can renew its products, which would take time and money. You can start providing “substitutes” or recommendations for similar products in stocks, or, you can rack up prices.

Temu has already increased costs last week.

Temu says there are no import fees or additional fees on delivery for parts purchased from local warehouses. On social media, users say the pieces are already sold out.

A Reddit user said Friday, around 60 of the pieces in his car were not available.

You do not have some articles TEMU locally, he told another user, writing that his virtual cart of more than three hundred articles has decreased in pairs. In addition to this, the user said that more prices had been implemented unless a “local order” totals at least $ 30.

“Temu is gone! What I saw today absolutely convinced me!”They wrote. ” Local vendors, despite buying some parts in advance in bulk, don’t have all those pieces that I’m interested in. “

CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald contributed to this report.

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