As CNN reminds, Trump eliminated the so -called “de minimis exemption”, which allowed duty -free shipments of goods worth $ 800. or smaller to the United States. Giant e-commerce sites used this gap by sending hundreds of millions of packages to American consumers.
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The administration lifted the release for goods from China and Hong Kong in May in connection with the trade war between the USA and China. The latest traffic expands to all countries around the world.
Trump stated in an ordinance that cites CNN that “many forwarders make every effort to avoid enforcement of law and hide illegal substances in imports that passes through international trade.” He also added that the risk of “evasion, fraud and import of illegal drugs is particularly high in the case of low value articles that qualify for duty -free de minimis treatment.”
Shein prices and this will suffer even more by the new rules
The decision of the US President is bad news for Chinese retail sellers and their clients, because it closes the possibility of redirecting small parcels dutyly through countries such as Vietnam, which is covered by a customs rate of 20 percent.
The executive regulation also requires the origin of the package to be declared to American customs and border services (CBP). Companies and Shein have already started to accumulate stocks of goods and send them loose to American warehouses to shorten the shipping time.
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Companies will now have to pay a high import tax, even if they send goods with looseness, which means that customers can eventually pay more. De minimis suspension will also affect millions of sellers on Amazon Haul, a competitor ago and Tiktok Shop.
Last week will affect the huge number of packages that Americans are used to receivingand whose amount has increased in the last decade.
As CNN explains, Customs and border services process almost 4 million de minimis diced shipments per day. Most of these shipments come from China and Hong Kong. In total, over the last tax year, the customs and border services came to the USA over 1.35 billion parcels as part of de minimis dismissal.
