[chief lee runamok]

"Not what I voted for."

Too bad.

Tax paying USA citizens should not subsidize shipping your
small packages from foreign countries.

Cutting off cheating foreign shippers is what I voted for.

[Jane Long]

Amen!!

[KTM rider]

looks like E-Bay will take a hit on widget sales delivered through "Speed Pak" from China, and most of these are knock offs of stolen items which should have been imported, sold and delivered from a US warehouse which has destroyed a lot of small companies and private party sales. This allowed foriegners an unfair advantage and ability to steal ("knock off") non patentable inventions which put many small us companies out of business

Throughout my entire life, I was subjected to the buyer paying import duties on items sold to buyers in foreign countries and watched small manufacturers close up shop due to EPA regulations and this unfair trade advantage .

The MSM and socialist media is using everything like this it can to demonize the "Orange Devil"

[No name given]

Exactly.

[George from New England]

Last year I could get on ebay, 100 pack of parts from China with shipping included for $2. I can’t ship them in USA for under $10.

[catnipman]

it’s not just subsidization of the shipping costs, but the duty-free costs of billions of dollars of unknown package contents, including vast quantities of illegal contents pouring into our Republic ... and no doubt our trading “partners” handle inbound packages duty-free with subsidized shipping costs too, right? ... or our we the only suckers that do this on the planet?

[GenXPolymath]

If you personally order medications from Israel which like India is one of the world’s largest medication manufacturers after China FedEx and UPS as ‘re now going to charge YOU personally the XX percent tariff AND import duties and all the fees to process that. Before if those medications were under $800 they were exempt for the individual. So have fun paying out the nose personally for this now everyone.

Truth is medication manufacturing for generics is NEVER coming back here the American materials and labor market is not competitive due to labor costs. Slapping tariffs is only casing costs of drugs that will never be made here again. Some drugs have tripled in price since this nonsense tariff war has been startre. You have to know what battles to pick.

Any manufacturing that comes back is going to be automated with AI again due to labor costs. People expecting $70,000 a head manufacturing jobs against 1/3 that in India or automated in Israel is too stupid to do the math in a fungible commodity. Its basic econ 1301 capital via automation replaces labor when the automation is cheaper in the long run than labor. We crossed that line years ago and AI bipedal robots put the nail in the coffin.