Chinese Marketplace Dhgate becomes an application of USA. As the commercial war intensifies

Trump's commercial war has gone viral on Tiktok, pushing a Chinese electronic commerce application, DHGATE, at the top of Apple App Store in the United States.

After Trump increased American tariffs on Chinese imports by 145%numerous Chinese suppliers and manufacturers <a target="_blank" href="https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-trump-tariffs-tiktok-x-luxury-birkin-lululemon-cheap-knockoffs-125041400568_1.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener nofollow”>He began to do <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/charise_lee/status/1911147641200840713″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener nofollow”>Tiktok Videos that explain to consumers how the global luxury goods market really works. The clothes, the bags and other accessories that many people assumed that they were made in Europe originate in factories in China, these videos explained.

As a result of the trend, the application of Chinese wholesale market DHGATE increased to become the application of Free iPhone No. 3 in the Apple Applications store in the USA. From Monday morning.

By way of comparison, the application occupied the 352nd position in the free iphone applications without play in the US Appfigures. On Monday, Dhgate also went up to number 3 on the General Superior List for free applications for iPhone, including games.

The firm tells TechCrunch that on Saturday, April 12, the DHGATE application was downloaded 35,400 times in the App Store and Google Play, an increase of 56% since its average of 30 days. The United States represented 17,300 of these facilities, a 98% jump during the average of 30 days.

On Sunday, April 13, these facilities increased to 117,500 in iOS, 732% more than the average of 30 days. The United States represented 65,100 of those downloads, 940%more. (Android download data for Sunday are not yet available).

DHGATE It is a cross -border company of electronic commerce, which connects both companies and consumers with suppliers and manufacturers in China and other markets. Today, it offers an inventory of more than 30 million products in categories such as electronics, home and toys, shoes and clothing, jewelry, health and beauty, and more, says its website.

The demand for the application arose from the online viral trend mentioned above where Chinese manufacturers began to reveal their secrets to the US public. After this trend, the creators began to tell their viewers that the DHGATE application is a source to buy luxury products before a brand has added its label to the product.

In a popular Tiktok video, a Chinese manufacturer states that most luxury bags in the world are made in China, but the bags are sent to the factories of the brands in Europe, where the label is added and the bag is re -packaged. In this way, the bags seem to be “made in Italy” or “made in France,” says the creator of the video.

<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/Humanbydesign3/status/1911275857882050912″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener nofollow”>In another videoThat same creator, @senbags2, says that a $ 38,000 birkin bag is made for about $ 1,400 and that consumers are only paying the logo and elegant packaging. (Since then, the creator's Tiktok account has been eliminated, but there are numerous stitches and relids).

The videos of other Chinese creators focused on luxury categories such as clothes and jewels. Marks such as Hermès, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and others in the videos were mentioned, as well as middle -range brands such as Lululemon, Tommy Hilfiger, Lacoste and Hugo Boss.

The objective of the videos is to emphasize that the United States depends more on China on what you can realize, since even the brands that US consumers thought they were high -end European products are being manufactured in the country. Not everything is fast fashion and cheap electronics like those found in Shein or Tiktok shop.

This is No news For anyone who understands the global supply chain, but the videos have taken Tiktok users to look for a way to buy directly to product manufacturers in China, taking them to DHGATE and other applications that connect with the Chinese market. A similar application, Taobao, became the application of free iPhone No. 10 on Monday.

Actually, it can be difficult for consumers to say which factories are the originals hired by luxury brands and which are only making copies, also known as Dupes. However, online communities such as R/DHGate in Reddit Sometimes you can offer help on that front.

Using DHGate is not really a solution to avoid Trump tariffs, since any Chinese import to the United States would still be affected by tariffs outside Some exceptions in electronics, for now. But as a Tiktok commentator indicatedThese tendencies are the result that the USA.