Cross-border intelligence

What major events happened in the cross-border circle last week (10.12-10.18)

2026.10.12-2026.10.18 Cross-border News

Stop filling in List Price randomly! It is not just a strikethrough price, but also your underlying card for applying to BD and gaining traffic

The day before, the storefront was still properly displaying the strikethrough price and Save discount, and the next day the List Price suddenly "disappeared"

Peak season is not about gambling on a single day: a furniture listing used 3 rounds of Woot BD to clearly work out the rhythm before and after the major promotion

Overseas influencer marketing AI Agent: after a 73% penetration rate, the next question brands should care about

The penetration rate of AI in overseas influencer marketing has reached 73%, but more than 80% of practitioners believe that achieving returns on investment has become more difficult. The problem is not whether AI is used, but at which layer it is used. This article breaks down the essential difference between AI assis

Automatically recommended Google Ads optimization suggestions—which ones are suitable to adopt, and which ones may amplify waste?

Your Google Ads Optimization Score is low—should you adopt the suggestions with one click? Don't blindly trust platform recommendations! This article deeply breaks down the screening logic for Google Ads automated suggestions in foreign trade B2B scenarios, teaching you to avoid the traps of automated keyword expansion

Overseas influencer marketing | Zheng Qinwen's "practice partner" goes viral overseas, with a unit price of over $2,000 and more than 6,000 units sold

The U.S. Copyright Office plans to raise application official fees

The U.S. Copyright Office submitted the new fee schedule to Congress on 2026-07-14

UK profit warnings hit near two-year high as retailers brace for Budget

Profit warnings among UK-listed companies have climbed to their highest level since late 2024, putting further pressure on businesses ahead of the autumn Budget. New figures from EY-Parthenon showed 65 profit warnings were issued in the thr

Overseas influencer marketing | Raised over 1 billion in funding! With "glasses + drones," it wants a piece of DJI's pie!

$10bn US ‘dupe’ retailer Quince launches in UK

US brand Quince has entered the UK market, bringing its ‘cut-price luxury’ model to British shoppers. The San Francisco-based business, which was valued at $10.1 billion (around £7.5 billion) earlier this year, has launched its first market

Breaking! Six Hong Kong tax agreements are to be gazetted—can cross-border collections move now?

Six Hong Kong tax agreements have entered the legislative process but have not yet taken effect; enterprises need to carefully adjust cross-border capital paths.

26-cv-03326 | Automatic smoker patent strikes frequently; kitchen category sellers need to be careful when selecting products

Major good news for Middle East gold mining: Saudi Arabia joins the Madrid trademark system!

Good news~

What’s fuelling UK shopping centres’ £1.6bn comeback?

Britain’s biggest shopping centres are back on investors’ shopping lists, with £1.6 billion of deals this year. Six years after intu collapsed, its former shopping centres are attracting buyers again, as investors return to a sector they sp

U.S. customers pay in a lump sum—how should revenue be recognized?

A U.S. customer has paid the contract amount—can the enterprise recognize all of it as current-period revenue? Under U.S. accounting standard ASC 606, the contract content, performance progress, and transaction price also need to be considered.

Tax authority exposes 5 cases in a row: bookkeeping agencies in trouble, cross-border business owners also penalized

A bookkeeping agency filing quickly every month doesn't mean the boss can hand over all the risk along with it. In this round, the State Taxation Administration exposed 5 cases: intermediaries were investigated, yet enterprises still have to pay back taxes and late fees, and some enterprises will also be penalized.

From starting in a garage to annual revenue exceeding $100 million, this brand cracked overseas markets with a single silicone ring

Groove Life entered the market with low-cost silicone rings by solving the safety hazards of metal rings, and through technical barriers and precise positioning in high-risk occupational scenarios, achieved annual revenue exceeding 100 million.

9 decisions that most easily cause cross-border beginners to lose money! See if you've made any of them!

26-cv-12578 | Who moved the cheese of the classic swordsman? Zorro files three cases in one day, seeking damages across the entire internet!

Wayfair platform advantages, onboarding benefits policies, and a detailed explanation of the "light operation model" | Wayfair platform policy ②

Understand Wayfair

Accredited official statistics: HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions for the UK

Summary of HM Revenue and Customs' tax receipts, National Insurance contributions (NICs), and expenditure for the UK.

Don't rely on low-price volume listing! This category achieves high repeat purchases through "series-ization"

It is currently an undervalued incremental track.

Santander Turns to Nvidia to Build New AI Banking Capabilities

Santander has teamed with Nvidia to come up with capabilities for evaluating artificial intelligence models and agents for banking. This work by the Santander AI lab is designed to help determine which AI model is best suited for a task and

API documentation: What it is and how to write it (with examples)

Back before we carried the entirety of human knowledge around with us in our pockets, we printed instruction manuals on paper and included them with just about anything more complicated than a spoon. They were important, too. For instance,