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Some of the Chinese small parcel importers have already worked around this by packing everything in a cargo container, charging "tariffs" based on the wholesale value, and using their own contracted carriers to put it in the postal system. At that point it's mailed from the USA and no extra charges save the 25 cents you paid in "wholesale tariffs." If you want small parts or Tuya sensors from Aliexpress, now would be the time to get them because this can't last much longer.

Some of the reasons that parcels are stopping is that the shippers have no way to pay the tariff, and in some cases they have no idea what it is today vs. tomorrow because zoggie is spinning on his jewcock dildo changing them whenever his shorts itch. Remember that almost every other country in the world has import charges on everything and removed their De Minimus exemptions years ago (if they had any.)

Seems like lowering it back down to about $100 would have been more prudent. This will either overwhelm the system with 55 cent tariffs or just shut off some commercial avenues completely.

Some of the Chinese small parcel importers have already worked around this by packing everything in a cargo container, charging "tariffs" based on the wholesale value, and using their own contracted carriers to put it in the postal system. At that point it's mailed from the USA and no extra charges save the 25 cents you paid in "wholesale tariffs." If you want small parts or Tuya sensors from Aliexpress, now would be the time to get them because this can't last much longer. Some of the reasons that parcels are stopping is that the shippers have no way to pay the tariff, and in some cases they have no idea what it is today vs. tomorrow because zoggie is spinning on his jewcock dildo changing them whenever his shorts itch. Remember that almost every other country in the world has import charges on everything and removed their De Minimus exemptions years ago (if they had any.) Seems like lowering it back down to about $100 would have been more prudent. This will either overwhelm the system with 55 cent tariffs or just shut off some commercial avenues completely.
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Italian here, even for goods at around 50$ we pay 20% taxes + 22% VAT

and we still cannot compete

idiocracy, once in place, will not go back

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I have no problems with the tariffs themselves, we've had no real teeth on those for years here.

The implementation? Yeah, this is going to be a "New York Soda Tax" moment - all of those little parcels that consumers buy are going to slow or stop. The government thinks they are going to collects gorillions, but in reality people will simply find alternative methods or go without.

There's also the issues of how to even collect those tariffs from all the little parcel companies that operate here, as well as WTF even are they today?

Our De Minimus was $50 in the 1990s. That's fine, and could be scaled with inflation (would be about $110 today.) O'Bummer raised it to $800 right before leaving office, and he knew that would eventually create a mess for whomever came after him. With as cheap as crap is from China, you could order $800 worth of goods A DAY and stock a small store with it.

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The eu did this some years ago to the US. As a model builder this will be a setback, and most of Europe & Japan have turned off shipping, at least for the time being. China has a pretty big plastic modelkit industry.