{"id":20591,"date":"2025-04-24T04:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-tiktok-chinese-manufacturers-open-a-new-line-in-the-trade-war\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T04:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:18:36","slug":"on-tiktok-chinese-manufacturers-open-a-new-line-in-the-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-tiktok-chinese-manufacturers-open-a-new-line-in-the-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"On TikTok, Chinese Manufacturers Open a New Line in the Trade War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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. And amid the threats of sky-high tariffs on Chinese exports, Americans seem to be all in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pitch in the videos is that people can buy leggings and handbags exactly like those from brands like Lululemon, Hermes 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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\u2019s tariffs on Chinese imports. DHGate was among the 10 most downloaded apps in Apple\u2019s and Google\u2019s app stores last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The videos are surging in popularity on TikTok and Instagram, racking up millions of views and thousands of likes. Many of the posts also seem to have elicited Americans\u2019 sympathy for China in comments, such as \u201cTrump bullied the wrong country\u201d and \u201cChina won this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The videos offer a rare outlet for Chinese factory owners and workers to speak directly to American consumers through social media apps that are technically banned in China. And their popularity in America highlights increasingly vocal support for China on social media, similar to the outcry over the federal government\u2019s potential ban of TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s activating people politically in a similar way that you saw when we were going to cancel TikTok, but this time in the context of tariffs and the overall relationship with the two countries,\u201d said Matt Pearl, a director who focuses on technology issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. \u201cIt does demonstrate their ability to communicate with American consumers to drive a message about our dependence on Chinese goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Pearl suggested that the Chinese government might be allowing the videos to proliferate, since it has otherwise tended to discourage its citizens from posting videos that infringe on trademarked products from Western countries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Chinese Embassy in Washington and the Chinese Consulate in New York did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The volume of TikTok videos urging users to source products directly from Chinese factories soared almost 250 percent during the week of April 13, according to Margot Hardy, an analyst at Graphika, a social network analysis firm. On TikTok, the hashtag #ChineseFactory had 29,500 posts on April 23; on Instagram, it had 27,300 posts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Retail experts \u2014 and vendors in China \u2014 say it\u2019s unlikely that the most viral videos, which claim to be manufacturers for brands like Lululemon and Hermes, are peddling authentic products from those labels. Those factories often sign strict nondisclosure agreements and are unlikely to destroy their long-term relationships with major brands in exchange for hawking a few goods through direct sales, said Sucharita Kodali, a retail analyst at Forrester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Chinese government appears to be allowing the videos to proliferate, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA Lululemon or Chanel\u2019s interests right now in China are probably No. 100 on the list of things that the Chinese trade minister and officials there are concerned about,\u201d Ms. Kodali said. Manufacturers may also be rushing to close sales before new tariffs on May 2 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/16\/business\/tariffs-china-shein-temu.html\" title=\"\">add hefty fees to parcel shipments<\/a> from China, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, questions around the veracity of the goods aren\u2019t stopping demand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@elizabethhenzie\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Henzie<\/a>, a 23-year-old in Mooresville, N.C., said she found the manufacturing costs and retail prices described in the videos eye-opening. She made a spreadsheet of factories that claim they are selling dupes of sneakers, luxury bags and more, and linked it in her TikTok profile. That post has attracted more than one million views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Henzie is now working as an affiliate partner for DHGate, where she will receive free products from the company for review videos and a commission if people make a purchase through her links. She said she believed that people in China were ultimately trying to help Americans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSeeing how other countries are coming together to try to help American consumers has boosted my morale,\u201d Ms. Henzie said. \u201cEven though it\u2019s a negative thing that\u2019s going on in America, I think it\u2019s also pushing us to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been taking down some of the videos, pointing to a policy that prohibits the promotion of counterfeit goods. But many have persisted through reposts. Even older videos about Chinese manufacturing are spreading in personalized news feeds amid major interest in the tariffs. TikTok declined to comment further, and Instagram, which is owned by Meta, declined to comment on the videos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sellers in China say they started posting the videos when sales fell. Yu Qiule, the 36-year-old co-owner of a manufacturing company in Shandong Province in eastern China that makes fitness equipment, said he started posting to TikTok in mid-March to find more customers after the tariffs prompted a wave of canceled orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Louis Lv, the general manager of export at Hongye Jewelry Factory in Yiwu, in Zhejiang Province, said his firm started posting on TikTok at the end of 2024, driven by a slowdown in domestic sales. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he has watched the viewership in his TikTok videos soar since the Trump administration announced the tariffs. \u201cThe philosophy of Chinese businessmen is we will go wherever the business is,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@newsnexussa\/video\/7492848702860676358?is_from_webapp=1&amp;web_id=7492970936833902123\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most popular TikTok videos<\/a>, a man is holding what he says is a Hermes Birkin bag while claiming to share its production costs from a factory. (The original video and account have been removed, but versions of the video are still widely circulating through reposts from other users.) He says that the purse costs less than $1,400 to manufacture but that the French luxury retailer sells it for $38,000 solely for the label. The man claimed that he used the same leather and same hardware to replicate the handbags without the logo, offering them for $1,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesman for Hermes said its bags \u201cwere 100 percent made in France,\u201d and declined to comment further. A spokeswoman for Birkenstock said that the videos showed \u201cknockoffs\u201d and that its footwear was engineered and produced in the European Union. The company said that it had contacted TikTok and that initial videos were deleted on April 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lululemon, which has also been the target of viral TikTok videos from manufacturers who claim to sell its leggings for just $5, said it had been in touch with TikTok to remove false claims. Lululemon said in an emailed statement that it didn\u2019t work with the manufacturers in the videos and warned consumers to be aware of potentially counterfeit products and misinformation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Vanessa Friedman<!-- --> and <!-- -->Isabelle Qian<!-- --> contributed reporting from New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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