JD.com Partners With Canadian Peer to Drive International E-Commerce

E-commerce giants, China’s JD.com Inc. and Canada’s Shopify, have signed a deal which will give merchants in the U.S. and China better access to customers on their respective platforms and markets.

The deal will allow Shopify merchants in the U.S. to sell their products on JD’s cross-border e-commerce marketplace, JD Worldwide, giving them access to JD’s 550 million active customers in China, according to a joint statement on Tuesday.