Most important part of these tariffs:
“The trade rule allows packages to be shipped from foreign countries directly to consumers or businesses without paying tariffs, as long as the shipments do not exceed $800 per recipient per day. The new proposal would strip that exemption from a wide array of products and most likely have a significant impact on large importers of Chinese goods such as Shein and Temu, two online marketplaces that have become popular with American shoppers.”
This trade rule being taken advantage of by Aliexpress, Temu, and Shein is the sole reason why significant amounts of Americans could still afford to buy a lot of consumer goods despite having their real wages crash year after year. This would genuinely trigger another cost of living crisis
Shein makes absolute shite, it’s completely run of the mill fast fashion. Cheap, synthetic, and above all else, completely tasteless.
People with consumption addictions buy Shein garbage to use for one night out, and repeat that week after week. I would not believe such behaviour existed had I not witnessed myself.
Fuck knows where and how they do their labour but I would assume it’s poverty wages in tough conditions somewhere in the process.
Have you actually bought Shein clothes? They’re much better quality than H&M and oftentimes every other “cheap” chain where a T-shirt is 20+ dollars and a hoodie is 50+
Their production is the same as Western companies or even better (since a lot of textile moved out from China to south Asia and SEA) except they sell direct to westerners so they cut out all the middlemen markups
I would never buy Shein but I’ve felt the fabrics and it feels like ASOS. H + M is shite too. It’s all shite. Not to mention the air miles and water usage. With the amount of clothes in the world there is practically no reason to not buy secondhand clothes most of the time.
Not to mention the air miles and water usage
It’s largely the same since the other companies also have to ship overseas
And yea, I do agree with thrifting but just me personally, 99% of all the women’s clothes at a thrift shop/clothing swap do not come close to fitting me (trans 😔)
