Over the past decade, many Chinese drop shipping agents had embraced incredible success on account of lower shipping costs and better capability. Unfortunately, COVID-19 had a ripple effect on drop shipping agent and cross-border e-commerce companies, which caused a heated discussion about what will happen to the drop shipping business in the future.
Back to 2018, American President Trump announced that the United States was pulling out of the intergovernmental body called the Universal Postal Union after claiming that China has been taking advantage of the US. One year later, UPU announced that it reached a deal with the US and it approved President Trump’s request to collect higher fees on packages from international destinations. The agreement will go into effect on July 1, 2020 and American sellers can expect significantly hiked prices on their products. Basically, ePacket, a shipping option offered by Chinese and Hongkong merchants when shopping on popular Chinese marketplaces like Aliexpress, will no longer be price competitive and many American independent sellers will, if not go out of business, dramatically lose revenue.
But it is a fact that China is the world’s largest manufacturing country and a titan in the global exporting industry. According to statistics, China had assisted over 18 countries in the work of epidemic (South Korea, Italy, Japan, Iran, Pakistan, etc). Apart from sending medical teams, China also donated $20 million to the WHO, as well as masks, medicines, protective suits and other epidemic prevention materials to relevant countries. From the data, we can figure out the capability of Chinese Government, and so do the drop shippers. The local quarantine agency said Chinese outbreak appeared to be well contained, so there will be adequate staff in the order fulfillment center to achieve fast warehousing, packing and shipping.
In brief, Chinese drop shipping is the trend of e-commerce in the future, your business can be booming with the help of drop shipping agency.