Alibaba lets US small, medium businesses to sell on Platform
Chinese eCommerce platform Alibaba will allow small and medium sized US businesses to sell on Alibaba.com.
Until Tuesday, US business was only able to buy merchandise on the platform.
Alibaba has 10 million active business buyers in more than 190 countries and looking to up its growth in the USA, which has been held in check by Amazon and threatened by trade tensions between the US and China.
Alibaba said its one-third of the order volume is coming from US businesses. Sellers will have to pay an annual registration fee of about USD 2,000, but it won't charge a commission for each sale, unlike Amazon.
In March, Alibaba.com and Office Depot announced a co-branded online store to expand the reach of both companies with small and medium sized businesses.
It said at the time it ...