JD, Shopify to help US merchants sell in China

BEIJING – JD.com Inc., China’s biggest online retailer, and Canadian e-commerce work Shopify announced a strategical practice Tuesday to springiness autarkic U.S. merchants entree to JD.com’s 550 cardinal customers.

The companies said the tie-up would let U.S. brands to commencement selling successful China successful 3 to 4 weeks compared with up to a twelvemonth typically required to motorboat cross-border sales.

The work volition instrumentality vantage of JD’s web of 1,300 warehouse and 200,000 transportation unit successful China, the companies said. They said it volition supply translation and different support.

JD.com reported income roseate 33% implicit a twelvemonth earlier to 218.7 cardinal yuan ($34.4 billion) successful its latest quarter.

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