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Chinese e -commerce Temu and Shein reduced their expenses in the US promotional platforms and said they would raise prices at the end of this month when they struggle with the end of tax that helped them undermine competitors such as Amazon.

Topic It is estimated that an average of 31 percent reduce the cost of platforms, including YouTube Meta, X and Alphabet’s YouTube by an average of 31 percent, which led to April 13 compared to the previous month, estimated market intelligence sensor.

Smart e -commerce data also showed that Temu had carried out all the costs on the Google trading platform since April 9 when wide tariffs were introduced.

In an email, clients said on Wednesday that the “global trade rules and tariffs for our operating costs increased” and that it will make a “price adjustment” starting on April 25. Shane sent almost the same letter with the same date.

Return advertising and raising the prices of two retail sellers who rapidly rose in the US after the COVID-19 pandemic at the expense of competitors, including Amazon, show the broad influence of President Donald Trump’s trade conflict with China.

Moves will affect US consumers and can harm the social media platforms, including meta that offers advertising space to Chinese sellers so that they can reach a Western audience.

The subject and Lat Last week, the White House decision was touched upon to score duties on low cost packages that arrived from China, up to 90 percent of the parcel cost, or with a single fee from $ 75 to $ 150. This step, which will come into force on May 2, will finish the release from “De Minimis”, which allows goods that are estimated at less than $ 800, sent without official customers for US customers.

Western rivals criticized two companies for being undermining them and selling substandard goods.

“The decision to close the De minimis loophole was like a focused weed killer,” said Mike Ryan, Smarter Ecommerce analyst.

In recent years, Temu and Shein have spent billions of dollars, participating in an American advertising blitz, but each has less than 1 percent of the country’s e -commerce market, Consument Company Edge reports.

According to financial disclosure, the profit from China amounted to $ 18.4 billion, or more than 10 percent of $ 165 billion, financial disclosure reports. In January, he called tariffs or trade disputes as a potential risk to his business, saying that he brings “a considerable profit from a small number of resellers serving advertisers based in China.”

Both retailers are now distracting back. Shane’s daily average costs on Meta, Tiktok, YouTube and Pinterest decreased by 19 percent in the first two weeks of April when tariffs were imposed, the sensors show. He almost halved his expenses per year, in particular, reducing Add dollars with YouTube.

Last year, Temu collected the cost of US platforms that it was even higher than 2024, despite the recent decline, shows the data. Temu was the main advertiser in Elon Musk’s X in the US in 2024.

Meta and X refused to comment. Google, Temu and Shein did not immediately respond to comment requests.

James McDonald, Data Director and Forecasting of the Warc marketing intelligence company, said the advertising cuts would have an impact on the sale because both companies lacked sufficient loyalty to the brand. “They must be constantly advertising to support customers.”

Both companies are responsible for more than 30 percent of almost 1.5 million small tariffs in the US, according to a 2023 Congress report and US customs data.

The duties of low cost packages are still less than the Chinese import tariffs, which is up to 125 percent.