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Japan not to team up against China?
Financial Express Lucknow
|April 25, 2025
CHINESE MANUFACTURERS ARE flooding TikTok and other social media apps with direct appeals to American shoppers, urging people to buy luxury items straight from their factories.
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And amid the threats of sky-high tariffs on Chinese exports, Americans seem to be all in.
The pitch in the videos is that people can buy leggings and handbags exactly like those from brands like Lululemon, Hermès, and Birkenstock, but for a fraction of the price. They claim, often falsely, that the products are made in the same factories that produce items for those brands.
American influencers have embraced the videos, promoting the factories and driving downloads of Chinese shopping apps like DHGate and Taobao as a way for shoppers to save money if the price of goods skyrockets under President Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. DHGate was among the 10 most downloaded apps in Apple's and Google's app stores last week.
This story is from the April 25, 2025 edition of Financial Express Lucknow.
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