Will My Temu Order Arrive With All of the Trump-China Tariff Deal with?

• Donald Trump’s govt orders may cease low-cost provide for e-commerce orders direct from China.
• That may very well be dangerous knowledge for Temu and Shein.
• Essential query: What is going to occur to the $2.74 mousepad I ordered from Temu final week?!

A number of days so far, I seen I wanted a mannequin new mousepad. The material masking was beginning to peel away from the rubber. So I went to Temu — extra on that in a minute.

Mousepads are a few of these factors that — in thought — it is worthwhile to on no account purchase; they solely come into your life, like low-cost umbrellas or Mason jars.

Nonetheless resulting from a really very long time of repetitive movement from typing, my weary wrists want the type of mousepad with the ergonomic padded blob on the tip, not the plain flat ones you accumulate with out cost.

So, spend my very private cash I have to.

Now, I’ve conflicted emotions about looking for on Temu, nonetheless a mousepad is type of an excellent Temu merchandise: High-quality would not actually matter, and a $3 one is analogous as a $10 one — at least to the human eye. As a price-sensitive shopper, I went for it.

I discovered a plain grey mousepad with a wrist leisure on Temu for $2.74 and ordered it.

Appropriately, it wasn’t fairly that straightforward — Temu requires a $15 minimal for an order to ship, so I threw in a number of utterly totally different objects: a squishy elbow leisure, a mannequin new cellphone case, some hair scrunchies.

Then catastrophe struck. Shortly after I positioned my order, President Donald Trump declared an finish to the “de minimis” exemption. There’s nonetheless some dialogue as to precisely what his govt order will recommend, nonetheless de minimis permits orders beneath $800 to ship immediately from China to US prospects with out encountering duties and taxes. It is a big a part of how Temu and Shein have operated all through the US so successfully.

Then factors went apocalyptic for my mousepad: On Tuesday night time time, the US Postal Service stopped taking inbound parcels from China. By Wednesday morning, the USPS had reversed that call, resuming service.

What all of this implies for Temu and related sellers like Shein is not going to be precisely clear, nonetheless let’s merely assume it is not good. (Temu did not reply to a request for remark.)

Nonetheless, each e-commerce platforms have superior earlier provide solely immediately from mainland China, and now plenty of their sellers have warehouses all through the US to ship orders domestically.

On Temu’s homepage, the perfect promoted half was for “native warehouse retailers” — sellers provide from warehouses all through the US.

Shein’s web site on-line had a lots a lot much less distinguished tab for “QuickShip” objects that ship from the US, which wasn’t seen in the least on its cell app.

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Whereas relations with one amongst our largest commerce companions are up all through the air, I’ve good particulars about my mousepad (which I am optimistic you have gotten been fearful about).

My Temu order seems to be nonetheless shifting alongside in processing to be shipped.