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A report that Amazon would display price increases due to tariffs on its goods — which the company has since denied — landed CEO Jeff Bezos a phone call from President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Breitbart News can confirm. CNN White House reporter Alayna Treene, citing two senior White House officials speaking anonymously, reported that Trump personally called Amazon’s founder to confront him about the report. A source familiar verified to Breitbart News that there was a call between Trump and Bezos in the morning. Punchbowl News first reported on Amazon’s alleged plan “to showcase how much tariffs were contributing...

Temu has officially turned off ALL Google Shopping campaigns. They went from being a top 5 iOS app to now being ranked 64. What a brutal blow. This is obviously a big thanks to tariffs and the end of the Section 321 loophole. Temu is no more.

If you think bringing American manufacturing jobs back is a steep climb, it’s nothing compared to one of the key efforts this year: saving America’s retail sector. Retail is absolutely critical to the American way of life. Shops fill our malls and business districts; they draw customers to our restaurants and movie theaters, they create important part-time jobs for students and adults, and for those of you who like taxes, retailers produce sales taxes and property taxes and income taxes, and by employing people, they provide income taxes and FICA taxes as well. Retail is everything from the single-location gift...

<p>The Communist country of 1.3 billion people has shifted that much cash into amping up its factories in just four years in an effort to overwhelm manufacturers around the world with an influx of cheap goods.</p><p>President Trump’s 125% tariff on all Chinese imports into the US...is actually just the latest protective measure against China.</p>

Popular e-commerce companies, including giants Shein and Temu, use the so-called “de minimis” exemption to ship tens of millions of packages — everything from end tables and lamps to shoes and underwear — to U.S. consumers every year. So long as each individual package is worth $800 or less, they aren’t required to pay import fees or go through typical customs inspections. But under an executive order signed by Trump Wednesday, that loophole will close on May 2. These lower-value shipments will now face a tariff of 30% of the “value of the postal item containing goods for merchandise” with...

The de minimis loophole comes from back in the 1930s. The idea back then was, say you went on a vacation to Paris, you shouldn’t have to file customs paperwork or pay taxes if you decided to ship some little Eiffel Tower statues to your friends back home.Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800. However, the e-commerce world exploded, and Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods (ex. Temu and Shein) into the USA direct to consumers without paying any customs duty.Yesterday as part of the global trade reset...

Effective Feb. 4, the Postal Service will temporarily suspend only international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts until further notice. Note the flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong will not be impacted.

Over the past few years, conservative commentator Brett Cooper has made a huge number of videos at a YouTube channel which, until very recently, was called “The Comments Section with Brett Cooper.” That YouTube channel is run by the Daily Wire, which is, in turn, run by Ben Shapiro.Here is one of Cooper’s videos from that channel, so you can see her style of talking in case you’re not familiar with her:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8kGWoaroMCooper recently left the channel, and has been replaced with what is being referred to as “Temu Brett Cooper.” For those of you who aren’t familiar with Temu, it’s...

The company, along with rival Shein offer heavily discounted items and have seen increased popularity in the US and UK. Temu’s founder Colin Huang has recently become China’s richest man with a net worth of $48.6bn (€44.50m), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He replaced bottled-water tycoon Zhong Shanshan, the founder and chairman of beverage company Nongfu Spring, who has held the title since April 2021. A serial entrepreneur, Huang has previously started a number of other businesses, such as e-commerce platform Oku, online games company Xinyoudi and agricultural platform Pinduoduo. Huang was also previously an engineer at Google and...

Once downloaded, Temu can access almost anything on your phone — the camera, internet, audio recordings, and more — according to one study.If you polled Americans on whether they would be comfortable handing over sensitive personal and financial information to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), you would likely get a near-unanimous declaration of “no!”But this is precisely what more than 100 million Americans using Temu have done, according to analysis by SimilarWeb.Temu, a China-based e-commerce company, has witnessed meteoric growth since its inception in 2022. It has its sights set on $60 billion in sales this year, after an impressive...

"Though it is known as an e-commerce platform, Temu is functionally malware and spyware," Attorney General Tim Griffin said in a statement. Griffin referred to Temu as a "data theft" business in a press release put out recently. "Today I have filed a first-of-its-kind state lawsuit against the parent companies of Temu—PDD Holdings Inc. and WhaleCo Inc.—for violating the ADTPA and PIPA," Griffin said in a statement. "Though it is known as an e-commerce platform, Temu is functionally malware and spyware."

A San Gabriel Valley woman pleaded guilty to defrauding over $150 million from the U.S. Postal Service. Lijuan “Angela” Chen, 51, of Walnut, carried out the scheme by using counterfeit postage to ship tens of millions of packages, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. From November 2019 to May 2023, Chen and her accomplice, Chuanhua “Hugh” Hu, 51, owned and operated a package shipping business in the City of Industry.

Log onto Facebook. Before you know it, you’ll see ads from Temu or Wish, pitching cheap products. Or open your old email account, the one that you’ve had for years, so it gets the most spam. Every other message is an offer from some unknown store, selling the sort of thing in which a person like you just might be interested. Or log onto Amazon and look for something, anything at all. Twenty percent of the hits, maybe more, will be “sponsored” items, often from a brand you’ve never heard of. Of course, you can shut down the internet, close...

The most downloaded free app on both the App Store and Google Play for much of the last two months wasn’t TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram, but a shopping app that didn’t exist just four months ago. Temu offers steep discounts on a slew of products, mostly shipped directly from Chinese factories or warehouses. In addition to incredibly low prices, Temu can no doubt attribute its popularity to its strategy of giving free stuff to users who promote the app on their social networks and get friends and family to sign up. But the company—the U.S. offshoot of Chinese e-commerce giant...

On Christmas Eve I was in the room with three people on the Temu App Temu a Chinese company making big inroads in low price online retailing... President Donald Trump wants to modify Obamacare who isn't getting their cut?... I think a lot nowadays about a big COVID vax promoter a friend of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla namely... Time for the Globalism Update.... Two US senators featured at Davos 2023 and both were Democrats at the time Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona heck they even high-fived each other... Why Did October 7th Happen In Israel?...

TEMU app software has the full array of characteristics of the most aggressive forms of malware/spyware. The app has hidden functions that allow for extensive data exfiltration unbeknown to users, potentially giving bad actors full access to almost all data on customers’ mobile devices. It is evident that great efforts were taken to intentionally hide the malicious intent and intrusiveness of the software. We engaged numerous independent data security experts to decompile and analyze TEMU app’s code, integrated with experts of our own staff, and analysts who have written independently in the public domain. Contributing to the danger of mass...

Radio talk show hostess Kim Komando recently researched the shopping app Temu. She says her research set off some alarms and warns the public to be cautious if they are using this China-based company. Seemingly overnight, everyone’s talking about Temu (pronounced “tee-moo”), an online shopping app that boasts deals that seem too good to be true, like $17 wireless earbuds, $1 “gold” necklaces, and $23 wedding dresses. Over 50 million Americans have downloaded Temu since it launched state-side in September 2022, after it gained traction with expensive Super Bowl ads promising to let you “shop like a billionaire.” Today, Temu...

It’s no secret: TikTok gathers a ton of data on its users and sends the information straight back to the Chinese government. The app is a threat to your privacy and security even if you don’t have it installed. TikTok is not the only Chinese app ... A shopping app downloaded by millions of Americans comes with all sorts of sneaky tricks to keep an eye on you.Have you heard of Temu? People love Temu. It’s the second most popular shopping app right now, only surpassed by the mighty Amazon. Temu must be buying a ton of ad space because...