Not what I voted for.
The question to ask is are we able to ship items to these countries without having to pay a fee for items under the 800.00 dollar mark? I highly doubt it , and anything that will attract any manufacturing back to our shores is needed badly. I also do not forget the simple fact that our own politicians / government aided and abetted the purge of manufacturing from America to overseas and created the situation.
The days of exploiting America are OVER, I have seen people ship ANYTHING, no matter the value, as a “gift” or declared value $5 to avoid tariffs and scrutiny. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER.
My India order arrived quickly from the Philippines.
Commercial express services. Companies like DHL Express, FedEx and UPS are still shipping to the U.S., but they’ll calculate and collect the new tariffs for you.
>> We’re talking about major disruptions from Europe to Asia that might ... limit where you can shop
Throw me in that briar patch! Anyone else beside Mrs. Tick ever get burned by one of those tempting clothing/home furnishing/other-retail-crap web ads from some no-name vendor and three weeks later receive your “package” direct from Chindialand, tear it open with glee, and discovered it’s undersized/poorly made/dysfunctional garbage that bears only a faint resemblance to the advertisement?
“de minimis no tariff” is how those clowns deliver their stuffs. They can all stuff it now!
From personal experience, it was not long ago that you could buy stuff on eBay from sellers in China for a few dollars and have it delivered to you with free shipping. That required subsidies from the government of China and with the cooperation of the US government. Basically, US sellers of similar items in the US were shut out of the market.
Now the free shipping thing seems to have disappeared, but China sellers are now offering shipping to the US for much less that it would cost a seller in the US to ship to China.
This is a nose-face reaction. While it affects companies in the US that import goods, it likewise affects those companies that export products to the US. China has about 20% of its GDP based on exports. Other countries: Germany 43%, South Korea 38%, Canada 26%. Luxembourg, Hong Kong, and Singapore actually have percentages where they exceed 100%. (They can exceed 100% because GDP measures value added domestically, not trade volume.) By comparison, US imports account for about 15% of GDP.
which results in reactions like "not what I voted for" which is an indication that the propaganda blitz against Trump is working
every headline I read has a slant designed to demonize Trump
POSTAL systems.
DHL, FEDEX, UPS are still delivering, no?
If I remember correctly, you used to pay at the post office when you picked the package up.
Great.
Need a part for my German-made bicycle that has to come from Germany.
I’ll never see it now..
Yep. Well aware.
I have two expensive Deutsche Grammophon records stuck in Germany, which is actually their fault because I ordered them well before the de minimis exemption was stopped.
Because...?
Major export countries and their producers are shipping their goods to smaller countries that re-package those goods in smaller units that qualify for the USA sub-$800 exemption.
Pure tariff fraud!
Naturally, Trump and his political staff have completely failed to explain what is going on to Trump's loyal supporters.
Your ultra cheap Temu orders hit hardest. Like your new bargain 4qt air-fryer.
From Yahiya, as in Yahiya Sinwar, architect of October 7 massacres. Nope.