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[quote=Anonymous]How price increases are adding up at Shein
Evidence for the impact of Trump’s trade war has shown up at the popular China-founded online retailer.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/TARIFF-SHEIN/lbpgzlrjzvq/
By Kripa Jayaram and Arriana McLymore
Published July 25, 2025  06:00 AM EDT
Back in April, if you had ordered clothes from the popular Chinese-founded e-commerce website Shein, they would have reached your doorstep duty-free, thanks to to de minimis, a U.S. tariff exemption for goods valued $800 or less.

But that’s no longer the case. On May 2, the Trump administration ended the U.S. duty-free access for low-value shipments from China and Hong Kong, which had exploded in number in recent years.

Those shipments, often from popular overseas retailers like Shein and Temu, are now subject to tariffs, currently around 30%. Nearly two months since the exemption vanished, American consumers have started to feel the impact as prices begin to rise.

To see how much prices have changed, Reuters tracked the prices of nearly 200 items on Shein’s U.S.-facing website from April 24, the day before Shein announced its first price increases, to July 22. The data shows one example of how the U.S.’s new trade policies are passing costs onto consumers.[/quote]

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