(Beijing Comprehensive News) The US presidential election will vote on Tuesday (November 5th) local time, and the polls will show election.Zhejiang Yiwu, which is famous for making small products, used to be an alternative observation indicator in the United States election. However, due to the decrease in orders this year, the "Yiwu Index" is also difficult to see the clue.
Comprehensive China ’s“ 22 Overseas Men ”and zinc financial news. Before this American election, there are many campaigns related to Republican candidate Trump in Yiwu Trade City.less.The same is true on the Amazon platform, Trump's surroundings are more than twice the Harris.
However, some of the reasons for the above phenomenon is that the Democratic Party temporarily replaced the candidate with Harris before the election, which caused the Yiwu merchant who had always been stocking in advance.general.
In the past few American elections, a large number of baseball caps, flags, character toys, Mark cups and other campaign products have exported from Yiwu to the United States. With the degree of popularity and popularity of different candidates, the "Yiwu Index" has gradually evolved into observation.Vane of the US election situation.
Trump accidentally defeated the Democratic candidate Hillary in 2016, at that time, the "Yiwu Index" accurately predicted Trump's victory; but in 2020, it was predicted that Trump's "Yiwu Index" failed.This year, the surrounding sales data of the US election in Yiwu is bleak, so it is difficult to judge the election from the order amount.
In August this year, the current US President Biden signed the "National Flag Act", asking the US federal government to only purchase the national flag made in the United States.Before this election, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party emphasized that they refused to use Chinese manufactured products during the campaign, and only selected products made in the United States, which also impacted the Yiwu merchant.
The British Financial Times quoted a number of wholesale flags and hats, saying that because the US wholesale buyers began to turn to purchasing from Vietnam and Cambodia, the orders they received this year decreased by 20%to 30%compared with 2020Essence
However, more and more Yiwu merchants are bypassing business. By opening a store on cross -border e -commerce platforms, they directly sell peripheral products to American voters.On the global e -commerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay and Pinduoduo, more than 90 % of the seller of the United States election related peripheral products is located in China.
