Where Temu goods are made
Factories: independent suppliers, almost all in China.
Temu does not manufacture anything. It is a marketplace operated by Whaleco Inc., a PDD Holdings subsidiary, and the products are made by independent third-party suppliers, the large majority based in China. Temu's sourcing operations are centered in Guangzhou, where hundreds of suppliers gathered to protest the company's penalty policy in July 2024. There is no Temu-owned factory, in the US or anywhere else.
Where US orders ship from
Warehouses: third-party 3PLs holding imported inventory.
The US footprint is fulfillment, not manufacturing. Orders ship either direct from China or from a 3PL warehouse holding a seller's pre-imported US inventory, the named partners in the next section. The goods inside those warehouses are still China-made; only the final fulfillment leg moved onshore. No Temu-branded warehouse and no Temu factory sits behind them.
For most of Temu's life the two were the same place. Under the consignment model (Temu calls it "fully managed"), suppliers shipped goods in bulk to Temu's warehouses in China, and Temu handled listing, pricing, and direct-to-consumer air shipping under the $800 de-minimis duty exemption. As Marketplace Pulse reported in March 2024, effectively 100% of items sold on Temu then came directly from China.
That changed when the de-minimis exemption ended for China and Hong Kong goods on May 2, 2025, per the White House fact sheet of April 2, 2025. Temu had already begun onboarding US-warehouse sellers in early 2024, and after the exemption closed it pushed hard toward US-domiciled inventory. CNBC reported in February 2025 that Temu was steering shoppers to "local" listings held in US warehouses, even though many of those listings are still sold by China-based businesses. So a seller searching "Temu factory" is asking about the China supply base; a seller searching "Temu warehouse" is asking about this US 3PL fulfillment layer. They are not interchangeable.