De Minimis Loophole for Beijing Ends, Temu Halts Direct Shipping from China

The Last Refuge ^ | May 2, 2025 | Sundance

[catnipman]

YEA ... the tsunami of the cheapest, crappiest garbage from china is halted ...

[goodnesswins]

YAY!!! Always avoided TEMU...

[econjack]

... the de minimis rule kicks in.

Actually, the rule kicks out. It used to allow sales under $800 to escape export fees and tariffs. An EO by Trump ended the de minimis rule.

[Bratch]

China Reroutes Targeted Goods to Friendly North American Partner to Avoid Tariffs

May 3, 2025 | Sundance 

As if on cue, a short article from the Chamber of Shipping notes that cargo from China is being rerouted to avoid tariffs.

The destination of the cargo is, wait for it,… CANADA!

USCoS – As U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods soar to as high as 145%, a growing number of companies are rerouting shipments to Canada and storing them in bonded warehouses in hopes of avoiding the duties and capitalising on a future rollback. This strategy has caused a sharp spike in Chinese shipments to Canada, with logistics firms and customs brokers reporting surging inquiries and storage demand from consumer goods, chemical, and auto parts sectors. However, experts caution that prolonged storage costs—estimated at $1,750 per container per week—and limited warehouse capacity could force sellers to offload discounted goods into the Canadian market, potentially disrupting domestic manufacturing. Others warn the strategy is risky and unsustainable, especially if the trade conflict drags into next year’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement negotiations. (link)

This will not end well….

… For Canada.

[BipolarBob]

NOW where will I buy my cheap Chinese (slave labor) crap?

/sarc

[bgill]

Hmm, rerouted. Ship to a “manufacturer” in some other 3rd world country and stamp it “made in XYZ” and they’re still in business.

[TonyM]

How will America survive without being able to waste money on cheap knockoff garbage?

[GOPJ]

Chaina had a great deal with the de minimis rule allowing small Chinese companies to sell directly into the American market... Xi threw that away..

Thank God Trump’s President and he’s stopping de minimis for the benefit of the American people - - citizens who NEED CHINA TO COME TO THE TABLE AND CREATE FAIR TRADE RULES between our countries.

The days of ripping off the United States by handing diamonds and cash to our corrupt democrat politicians is over.

[READINABLUESTATE]

It’s so nice not having Temu pop-up ads in my face all the time.

What a nuisance.

[JerseyDvl]

Big win for America.

[Freee-dame]

It’s a little scary that Senator Thune was one of the originators of the bill that increased the diminimus amount from $200 to $800. Is he on the MAGA side?

[aquila48]

And without that competition guess what’s going to happen to the prices of those things built here?

[fireman15]

I did not buy anything from TEMU, but I have spent a couple hundred dollars using AliExpress. These were mostly for electronic items and spare parts for things like robot vacuums and drones that were manufactured in China.

They were mostly not available from any other source that I could find or were less than half the price than sellers on Amazon and eBay were asking for the same thing. The shipping was either free or very low cost and most of them came within a couple of weeks. Typically, my orders were consolidated into one box or bag in China and then sent here.

My friend who owns a customs brokerage has done the same thing, but of course he has made all sorts of claims that huge amounts of drugs and other illegal items have been shipped here under the cover of all of these De Minimis qualifying orders. He believes that the new rules are going to help his business.

[PGR88]

No country in the world conducted a similar kind of de minimus “free trade” that the US did. Not even close.

Try sending a package, any package, to China. It will get opened, examined (often destroyed), have documents examined, will be taxed, etc....

[PGR88]

NEED CHINA TO COME TO THE TABLE AND CREATE FAIR TRADE RULES between our countries.

China's trading and economic can not change without changing the CCP - so that will never be allowed to happen.

It goes way beyond just duty rates.

[GOPJ]

What year did that happen?

[GOPJ]

China's trading and economic can not change without changing the CCP - so that will never be allowed to happen. It goes way beyond just duty rates.

Good point - but the longest journey starts with one foot forward... China needs to come to the table and start the process of becoming a first world country in more ways than just 'stuff'.

[SoConPubbie]

And without that competition guess what’s going to happen to the prices of those things built here?

So what's your solution to the problem?

[tired&retired]

E-bay has added tariffs to shipping costs. A $9 remote control shipped from China now has $103 shipping costs. 😁

Amazon just removed the products shipped from China.