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Report  |  May 2025

E-Commerce Expansion: Alibaba’s Impact on the U.S. Economy by State and Industry

By Nam D. Pham, Ph.D. and Marc Dupont

The Alibaba Group offers a wide range of services from basic e-commerce to cloud and AI tools for retailers, wholesalers, and businesses. Following its organizational restructuring in 2023, the Alibaba Group comprises six major business groups. The Taobao and Tmall Group, one of the six business groups and accounting for two-thirds of Alibaba Group’s total revenue, facilitates one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing digital consumer markets. The Taobao and Tmall Group provides various e-commerce platforms that enable large global brands and small businesses to market their products to over one billion consumers in China.