If a commercial item is mailed out the country, a Chinese shipper pays NO POSTAGE!
It’s so crazy that shippers from India and Vietnam are transshipping through China to take advantage of free postage.
That how you see items sold on ebay for 99 cents and free shipping.
Countless small US entrepreneurs benefit from that, and stopping it will have unintended consequences. It’s not like they are bypassing a US-based supplier because in most cases there are none. What will happen is Chinese companies will bulk-ship to US partners who will add cost and time but no value.