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‘My Etsy Shop Is Dead’: Sellers on Surviving the Tariff Shock
National coverage caught up this week with a story we’ve been tracking on this site since early summer: the real, and in some cases severe, financial impact the end of the de minimis exemption is having on Etsy sellers who depend on imported materials. The scale of the impact, in sellers’ own words Reporting this…
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The Tariff Exemption Is Gone — Here’s What It Costs Your Shop
We’ve tracked rising sourcing anxiety all summer. As of this week, the underlying policy shift driving it is fully in effect, and it’s worth laying out plainly what actually changed and what it means going forward. What happened The “de minimis” exemption, which allowed shipments valued at $800 or less to enter the United States…
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Inside the Etsy Boycott: What Sellers Are Saying
The boycott conversation we’ve been tracking for the past two weeks has a clear origin point now, and it’s worth laying out plainly what’s actually happening, since forum speculation has outpaced reporting on this one. What triggered it A portion of Etsy’s buyer and seller base began organizing a boycott of the platform this month…
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Etsy’s Creativity Standards, One Month In: What Actually Got Removed
It’s been almost a month since Etsy quietly rewrote a core piece of its Creativity Standards, and the effects are still showing up in shops that had no idea the rule had changed until a listing disappeared. What changed on June 10 On June 10, Etsy removed the long-standing allowance for items built from “templated…