{"id":1013034,"date":"2026-06-09T08:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013034"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:10:44","slug":"chinas-global-ecommerce-push-stalls-as-iran-war-lifts-costs-dampens-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/chinas-global-ecommerce-push-stalls-as-iran-war-lifts-costs-dampens-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s global ecommerce push stalls as Iran war lifts costs, dampens demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s ecommerce export engine is faltering as surging jet fuel costs and weak demand from lower-income \u200bconsumers in the West linked to the Iran war threaten profits for big online platforms like Temu , Shein and AliExpress. The business models, based on flying $5 dresses from Chinese factories to shoppers around the world, were already under pressure after U.S. President Donald Trump introduced tariffs and axed customs waivers on low-value parcels last year. Soaring logistics costs stemming \u200cfrom the Middle East \u2060conflict are adding \u2060to the strain, data shows and industry insiders say, with shippers like DHL Express imposing hefty fuel surcharges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s ecommerce export engine is faltering as surging jet fuel costs and weak demand from lower-income \u200bconsumers in the West linked to the Iran war threaten profits for big online platforms like Temu , Shein and AliExpress. The business models, based on flying $5 dresses from Chinese factories to shoppers around the world, were already under pressure after U.S. President Donald Trump introduced tariffs and axed customs waivers on low-value parcels last year. Soaring logistics costs stemming \u200cfrom the Middle East \u2060conflict are adding \u2060to the strain, data shows and industry insiders say, with shippers like DHL Express imposing hefty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013062,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013034\/revisions\/1013062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}