Items listed for sale include beauty products for young women and girls for as low as a penny, and kids’ clothing for less than $10, well below average American direct-to-consumer merchants’ prices such as those found at Amazon and other outlets.

But they mostly avoid U.S. import tariffs on Chinese goods because the threshold for assessing such taxes is $800 or more, according to a report from the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Shein’s terms of service for U.S. consumers limit daily orders to $800.

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