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Not even fancy D.C. lobbyists could save Shein from the tariffs.
As Donald Trump eliminates the exemption for shipments valued at $800 or less, Wired published a closer look at how Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion retailer that relied on that exemption to keep their prices dirt-cheap, tried to lobby their way out of it: spending millions of dollars on Washington lobbyists, hiring Trump administration alumni, and even sending their president, Donald Tang, to schmooze with the China hawks at the MAGA think tanks. (It didn’t work.)
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