What Is DHgate? Trump Tariffs Drive Surge in Downloads for Chinese Apps

President Donald Trump's contentious barrage of tariffs has people asking a lot of questions: What will they actually do to prices? Should I make that big purchase now? However, one question the White House probably didn't see coming is consumers wondering how they can do more shopping from China. And the answer to that might be DHgate. As I write this on April 16, the Chinese shopping service DHgate boasts the second-most downloaded free app on Apple's App Store, behind only OpenAI's ChatGPT. According to a new report from Yahoo Finance, last week, it was 352nd on the same list, indicating a stratospheric rise in popularity largely attributed to popular TikTok creators advocating for the e-commerce platform as a way to buy directly from China. So what is DHgate precisely? It's an online shopping platform based in China that has been around since 2004. Similar in function and appearance to other popular sites like Shein and Temu, DHgate allows consumers to make purchases directly fro ... Read full article.