Chinese retailers that sell on Shein and PDD Holdings Inc.’s Temu platform say they have been asked by logistics agents to start paying an additional 30% levy after President Donald Trump earlier this week hiked tariffs on goods imported to the US from China and Hong Kong.

Mr Trump’s new trade barriers will be a blow not only to American consumers, but also to the e-commerce companies that have cashed in on the de minimis exemption. Shein, a Chinese apparel group whose largest market is America,

USPS said it would work with Customs and Border Protection to implement a collection process for new China tariffs to avoid delivery disruptions.

Shein and Temu shifted more of their orders to be fulfilled in the US ahead of de minimis changes.

A decision by President Trump to close a tariff loophole could change the landscape of online shopping, particularly for the Chinese e-commerce companies behind wildly successful sites, such as Shein and Temu.

Chinese retailers on Shein and Temu say they have been hit with an extra 30% levy on goods imported to the US from China and Hong Kong because of tariff hikes from President Donald Trump. In Hong Kong,

Temu is going “local” after the US President raised tariffs by 10% on all imports from China. President Trump removed the “de minimis exemption” this week, citing it creates an uneven playing field that benefits Chinese e-retailers at the expense of US companies.

President Donald Trump's new tariffs on China will make purchases from Shein and Temu more expensive — and that's if the shipments can even get into the United States. Trump's China tariffs include the revocation of a "century-old tax loophole" that had canceled out "tens of billions of dollars in fees on imports,