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Week in Review — August 24, 2025
Back-to-school is clearly winding down in most regions, and shop chatter is starting to shift toward fall planning. The transition is underway Multiple sellers this week posted about starting to plan fall and early Q4 inventory, a full month earlier than some said they usually would, citing this year’s sourcing cost uncertainty as a reason…
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Closing Out Summer: Getting Your Sourcing and Merchandising Ready for Fall
On July 30, 2025, the same week this guide was written, the White House signed an executive order suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for imports from every country, effective August 29. If your fall or holiday line depends on imported materials, that’s a four-week window, not a vague “sometime this fall” problem. Table of Contents…
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Week in Review — July 6, 2025
A short week for most of the US, but not a quiet one in seller forums. Here’s what actually mattered if you sell on Etsy this week. Creativity Standards fallout is still spreading Nearly a month after Etsy quietly rewrote its Creativity Standards to cut “templated designs or patterns” from what counts as original work,…