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“Additionally, the $800 exemption for low-value goods has been removed.”

I didn’t even know such a thing existed, it’s not something reported on the news.

So every product will be hit with the tariff raising prices, and not just expensive products getting the tariffs. Yikes!

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Quik@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is what allowed Temu and Alibaba and Wish and the like to happen (their business model was to send every single product as a single package worth under 800$, leading to enormous shipping times and waste etc., but they don’t have to pay import taxes).

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  enormous shipping times
  
  This definitely improved over time. I don’t order much from Aliexpress, but the last two items I ordered arrived in just over a week - a similar time frame as ordering from a US store that doesn’t do fast shipping. A few days in China, then on a plane, then a few days in the USA.
  
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  - Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’ve seen a similar thing happen overtime for Aliexpress shipping to Europe - it used to take 2 months to were I am (Portugal), now it takes a bit over a week.
    
    I think they set-up some kind of consolidated shipping operation so that the sellers on their site can ship things via Aliexpress’ own system, which is way faster (and invariably involves air-shipping via The Netherlands) and often is listed as Free Shipping.
    
    I’ve bought once or twice from sellers there that don’t use it and those packages still take 2 months to get here.
    
    I mention this because it makes sense that Aliexpress has set up a similar system for the US given that it’s a market which is almost as big as the EU.
    
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    barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    They also have warehouses in the EU which means that as a customer you don’t have to deal with duties and import VAT at all.
    
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A_norny_mousse@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
damn!

And it’s not even this government’s first big unambiguous fuck you to the common people.

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Tower@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
npr.org/…/de-minimis-trade-china-temu-shein-trump

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Why does this article describe it as a “loophole”? It’s not a loophole; it was intentionally written into law.
  
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