By the time you read this, it is too late. While President Donald Trump’s irregular tariff destroys the big economy, they will now destroy your personal economy writing small if you want to buy things from abroad.
The minimum base, which was Permitted External goods worth $ 800 to enter the country are exempt from customs duties, It ended on Friday. Now, regardless of low value, import costs apply.
A lot of focus on Trump’s tariff was to increase the costs of the goods themselves, noting that the things that Americans buy routinely at low costs from the outside will become more expensive. However, there is also the issue of increasing friction and chaos of sellers abroad, trucks and foreign postal offices.
The minimum base has been smooth the road for this low -cost trade. The goods can be at the threshold of $ 800 It is charged directly to consumersIn the sense that there are no complicated decisions for the costs of the customs tariffs for sellers and trucks, buyers did not have to go to the post office to pay fees to obtain a 9 -dollar LaPobo attachment after he underwent a complete customs inspection.
If Trump’s tariff is at least stable, sellers and trucks may decide that they can deal with the problem of customs tariffs. In fact, large trucks like UPS and Fedex Already equipped To know and pay the costs of the country. However, many smaller trucks ship via the post office in their country.
Upon killing of minimal exemption, Trump also ordered that customs protection and borders will not assess the duties of customs tariffs from the packages sent via the International Postal Network. Therefore, post offices abroad must now calculate the duty and push them to the American customs. This includes the post office for the first time in setting a way to collect customs tariff duties – which continue to change – from the package. Then the post office must pay CBP duties. Then the shipment can be delivered to USPs for delivery within the United States.
While postal services are sorted, the only real solution in some cases is not to charge any packages here. Note that the “any package” part. It is not only that some external postal services will not send you the Labubu supplement that has been purchased from a web site abroad that mocks Labubu’s madness. They will not send any packages at all until there is more certainty about the form of sending things to the United States.
So, if you expect a nice message with some photographs near Mexico? this packAnd you cannot get it if your relative tries to send it via the country’s postal service.
If your theoretical relative lives in Japan and wants to use Japan’s publication, they can send that message and those images, and they can do so Even throwing Jewelry worth $ 100 in value. But if you try to buy those jewelry itself, the Japanese seller cannot send it to you through the country’s post service. Like Australia, where your relatives can send these jewelry but you must Compliance New mandatory declaration requirements regarding the value of jewelry and its original country. If this seems just a purchase of camouflage, it cannot be sent.
India, Thailand, South Korea, New Zealand – all these postal services Now comment Package services, as well Switzerland and Taiwan. See too Austria, Belgium, and parts of Scandinavian countries.
To get an example of how unable to do so, let’s demonstrate your relative to Finland and want to send a letter via mail. No pictures, no jewelry. Just a two -page handwritten message about the quality of young people’s performance in school and how it was a nice summer vacation. As of August 22, you could not even get this message, because Finland’s mailing service, which bears the name Posti, was wonderful. Dealing with The case that airlines refused to accept anything binding on America, including messages. Then the airlines began accepting some elements again, so Posti announced that they would again accept the messages that will be sent here. But starting from Friday? Airlines are now refused again to send postal elements here, so Posti has returned to send anything, not even cards or messages, to the United States. You can not really blame them.
And not only the countries that hang the package shipments here. DHL, the German shipping group that deals with many shipments for European sellers, has announced that it will not charge anything Commercial parcel here. Even major companies, like LegoIt is not possible to stick to this chaos and restrict what they will send here. We wish you success if you are trying to buy from a small ETSY seller or the like.
There is a reliable and logical argument that must be presented that the minimum exemption was very high, so that it became an import vulnerability for major companies instead of a way to obtain a sweet ancient fountain pen from a French seller on EBAY without being both specialized in importing. Even there is a reliable and logical argument that must be submitted that the exemption allowed unsafe commodities to enter the country in large quantities without searched them at all.
But these are not the arguments made by the administration.
Trump is a fool and It has no idea What is the exemption, but it tries to cover up exaggeration: “It is very important, minimal. It is a big deal. It is a big fraud against our country, really against small companies, and we have finished it. We have put an end to it.” It is also sure that this will make it difficult for fentanel to enter the country, and it is assumed that in light of the theory that your relative can no longer put a few fines with family photos.
Meanwhile, please enjoy the American retreat from the global economy. Maybe we will start making Legos and Labubu Stateside and reform the economy in this way?