According to reports from Agence France-Presse, the French parliament recently voted to pass the latest fast fashion bill to limit the excessive development of low-cost, fast fashion products (especially from Chinese manufacturers). This marks France as the first country in the world to legislate to restrict fast fashion. The bill mainly includes banning textiles and fashion advertising and levying environmental taxes on low-cost goods. It is reported that the legislation plans to impose a €5 surcharge on fast fashion products from next year, expected to increase to €10 by 2030, with a ceiling of 50% of the product’s marked price. ...

The annual shopping extravaganza hosted by the global e-commerce giant Amazon—Prime Day—is about to kick off. Recently, the official WeChat public account of Amazon Global Stores officially announced that the submission channel for the 2024 Prime Day promotion event has been opened. It urged sellers to seize the opportunity, accurately fill in the submission information according to the established requirements, and join hands to welcome this global consumer shopping feast. The Achievements of the 2023 In 2023, the sales performance of Amazon Prime Day was nothing short of brilliant. According to data released by Amazon, the event set a new ...

In the coffee machine market, China, known as the world’s factory, is a central production hub for coffee machines. Data suggests that nearly 80% of coffee machines worldwide are produced in China. In recent years, with the rise of cross-border e-commerce, Chinese coffee machines have begun to enter the global market under brand identities such as TIMEMORE, Cyetus, Kalerm, and HiBREW, according to AliExpress’s summary of the top ten best-selling products in the cross-border e-commerce industry in 2023, coffee machines, robotic vacuum cleaners, and pet supplies ranked in the top three. Three Waves In legend, the shepherd Kaldi, living in ...

Yodel has been acquired by the newly established company YDLGP Limited, with the transaction amount undisclosed. YDLGP is a new company led and created by Shift CEO Jacob Corlett, with participation from Hundle and the commercial bank Solano Partners. About Yodel Yodel has well-known clients such as Vinted, Argos, eBay, and Gousto. It makes over 190 million deliveries annually across 50 sites in the UK, making it one of the largest logistics platforms in the country. For the year ended 31 December 2023, Yodel has continued to take market share with new clients, including Boden and Zalando. Yodel maintains a ...

TikTok Shop migration completed 75% in Indonesia. Two months since TikTok Shop returned to the Indonesian market, the backend migration of TikTok Shop to Tokopedia has now reached 75%, with the backend migration of the payment process entirely carried out on the Tokopedia system. Meanwhile, the process of sellers migrating from TikTok Shop to Tokopedia is still ongoing. According to the submitted reports and preliminary targets, it is expected to be completed by March. Vietnam ranks among the top 5 countries globally with the highest number of TikTok users. According to the report, the number of TikTok users in Vietnam ...

Recently, OpenAI launched the video generation model Sora, which can create a coherent 60-second video based on prompts, significantly surpassing the industry average length of 4 seconds. Cross-border sellers quickly pay attention and plan to fully leverage this ‘game-changing’ tool, applying it to product video production, perhaps opening up new traffic avenues. The robust performance of Sora has sellers envisioning limitless possibilities, especially considering the optimal duration for Amazon product videos, which is also 60 seconds. Sellers generally believe 2024 will be a year of widespread adoption of AI tools, with significant platforms unprecedentedly emphasizing videos. Sellers who fail to ...

On the evening of February 19th local time, a Yemeni Houthi Spokesperson announced that Houthi forces had launched missile attacks on two U.S. ships and a drone, causing devastating damage to a British cargo ship, which has now completely sunk. Details of the Ship Attacks In the past 24 hours, Houthi forces claimed to have carried out four armed actions, attacking three U.S. and British ships. In the city of Hodeidah in the Red Sea, they also shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone. The first ship attacked and sunk was the “Rubymar,” a cargo ship registered in the UK, flying ...

On January 29, the industry insiders released the “2023 China Game Overseas Research Report.” The report indicates that in 2023, the global gaming market reached 1,177.37 billion yuan, showing a year-on-year growth of 6%. After experiencing negative growth in 2022, the growth rate turned positive again, but the scale did not surpass the peak of 1,193.87 billion yuan in 2021. Pony Ma, Chairman and CEO of Tencent, stated that gaming is Tencent’s flagship business, and taking games global is currently Tencent’s biggest hope for internationalization. In recent years, Tencent has demonstrated certain advantages and built a good reputation in the ...