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The difficult road ahead: While Shein’s appeal to shoppers is unabated, that may not be enough to convince US lawmakers, who have shown that they are willing to take a hard line on companies with ties to China regardless of how popular those companies are with consumers.

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Amazon’s bread and butter: The launch comes only a few months after reports that the company was scaling back its ecommerce ambitions in India as part of CEO Andy Jassy’s cost-cutting initiatives. That stemmed from its decision to pull back on initiatives such as meal deliveries as it focused on its core competencies and revenue generators.

ByteDance is dead set on building up TikTok Shop in the US: Its aggressive moves to build a robust shopping service could lead to a $500 million loss this year.

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The context: Shein has a dominant (40%) share of the US fast-fashion market thanks to its vast assortment of low-priced apparel that appeals to Gen Z and millennial shoppers, per Bloomberg. Despite its success, the company has significant challenges.

. $5.8 billion in revenues during the second quarter came from outside China, with the majority coming from TikTok. Despite TikTok’s popularity and influence in the US, ByteDance gets the majority of its revenues from China, where it operates another short-form video app named Douyin.

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Few US merchants are selling goods on TikTok Shop: Many are reluctant to invest time and resources in the platform given the widespread speculation that it will be banned or sold.

The majority of Apple’s production takes place in China, India, and Vietnam, where the company relies on partners like Foxconn and its factories. Tech companies have laid off more than 186,000 employees (including Accenture’s announced 19,000 layoffs) so far this year, surpassing 2022’s total of 164,411 tech layoffs, per Layoffs.fyi.