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Alibaba.com targets TikTok’s Chinese merchants after regulations force change – South China Morning Post

Alibaba.com targets TikTok’s Chinese merchants after regulations force change – South China Morning Post

Alibaba.com seeks to woo merchants from TikTok after ByteDance ends social commerce activity in IndonesiaAlibaba.com, the international online wholesale arm of Alibaba Group Holding, is trying to woo merchants from ByteDance-owned TikTok who sell in Southeast Asia after the short video app was forced to suspend e-commerce activities in Indonesia.Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, in late September imposed a ban on e-commerce transactions via social media apps to protect the country’s small businesses. TikTok complied, ceasing sales on its e-commerce platform TikTok Shop.Alibaba.com, the B2B platform created by Alibaba in 1999, said in a statement on Tuesday that it… 

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