{"id":25364,"date":"2025-04-04T23:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25364"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:25:13","slug":"how-tariffs-are-hitting-digital-commerce-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25364","title":{"rendered":"How Tariffs Are Hitting Digital Commerce Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These businesses, including e-commerce platforms and payment processors, are pulling back on public offering plans and bracing for pain.<\/p>\n

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This year was supposed to be a banner moment for digital commerce companies.<\/p>\n

Klarna, the digital payments giant, was gearing up for an initial public offering. So was Chime, the financial services company. And StubHub, the online ticketing business, had spoken to bankers for months<\/a> about pursuing an I.P.O.<\/p>\n

But after President Trump unveiled a barrage of tariffs<\/a> this week, companies across the industry scrambled to deal with the fallout.<\/p>\n

Among other moves, Klarna, Chime and StubHub all paused their I.P.O. plans, aiming to wait out the market volatility, people with knowledge of the matter said. And companies that provide online sellers with payment processing services, like Shopify, are lobbying for changes to Mr. Trump\u2019s tariff policies and advising customers on how to weather potential economic difficulties. Stripe, a payments start-up, and Block, a payments and money transfer services company formerly known as Square, are making similar moves.<\/p>\n

It might seem counterintuitive for tariffs to bring pain to digital commerce companies, which sell goods or provide services online. But these businesses are set to be affected in roundabout ways.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Retailers like Amazon, which act as clearinghouses for online merchants, could feel the effects if fewer people buy foreign exports on their platforms. And companies like Klarna profit from fees they charge small businesses for processing digital payments, which could be in serious jeopardy if people buy fewer items online.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this game of chicken continues through 2025 and even longer, this is going to be very painful for the entire retail industry,\u201d said Sucharita Kodali, an analyst for Forrester who covers retail and e-commerce. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be bad for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These businesses, including e-commerce platforms and payment processors, are pulling back on public offering plans and bracing for pain.This year was supposed to be a banner moment for digital commerce companies.Klarna, the digital payments giant, was gearing up for an initial public offering. So was Chime, the financial services company. And StubHub, the online ticketing business, had spoken to bankers for months about pursuing an I.P.O.But after President Trump unveiled a barrage of tariffs this week, companies across the industry scrambled to deal with the fallout.Among other moves, Klarna, Chime and StubHub all paused their I.P.O. plans, aiming to wait out the market volatility, people with knowledge of the matter said. And companies that provide online sellers with payment processing services, like Shopify, are lobbying for changes to Mr. Trump\u2019s tariff policies and advising customers on how to weather potential economic difficulties. Stripe, a payments start-up, and Block, a payments and money transfer services company formerly known as Square, are making similar moves.It might seem counterintuitive for tariffs to bring pain to digital commerce companies, which sell goods or provide services online. But these businesses are set to be affected in roundabout ways.Retailers like Amazon, which act as clearinghouses for online merchants, could feel the effects if fewer people buy foreign exports on their platforms. And companies like Klarna profit from fees they charge small businesses for processing digital payments, which could be in serious jeopardy if people buy fewer items online.\u201cIf this game of chicken continues through 2025 and even longer, this is going to be very painful for the entire retail industry,\u201d said Sucharita Kodali, an analyst for Forrester who covers retail and e-commerce. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be bad for everyone.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25366,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25367,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364\/revisions\/25367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}