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I'll watch the video later when I have some time, but I suppose my personal take on ordering from Chinese suppliers is that I kind of wince and shy away from it. Beyond the reputation of Chinese products for being low quality, they also have a reputation for producing unsafe products. Even if that wasn't the case, I was hearing about some laws that recently passed in the US that would make drop-shipping from China to be unviable and I'm unsure if that includes POD since POD is a type of dropshipping. The video I saw I think was mostly talking about people dropshipping from Temu. I don't remember everything the video said, but beyond raising import taxes, it was talking about new rules in the US would eventually require customers to provide their social security number when buying products from China, and they would also be personally liable to make sure that the products met US safety standards. Again, that's the customer that would be responsible for that, not the dropshipping seller. So, I have no clue how all of that might affect Chinese POD suppliers, but it's certainly an additional reason for me to be wary of it.

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