How e-commerce sites are trying to help shoppers avoid tariffs
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Popular Chinese e-commerce site Temu, which
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But as that stock runs down, Temu is showing the import charge at checkout on items that must be shipped from China, CNBC
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At Kickstarter, a favorite spot for snagging cutting edge and specialty consumer tech gear, the site is giving sellers the option of a post-sale price hike to account for tariffs.
Consumers agree to pay for products at a specific price on Kickstarter months, sometimes even years, before the products are ready for sale. With tariffs coming into play only recently, that could have left sellers unable to meet the price they originally promised. So Kickstarter is letting sellers
The White House is not happy about import tax disclosures, however. After a
But line item disclosures could be the least of consumers' tariff worries if all of the new levies take effect. Then again, the president has backed off multiple times.
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